FINCH (ANNE, Countess of Winchelsea)
Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions, first edition, Rothchild's variant title "C", with author's name and addition of John Morphew to the imprint, title, E8, G1 and G3 cancels, occasional soiling and some light dampstaining, a few small tears, repairs and burn holes in margins, contemporary panelled calf, spine worn [Rothschild 2585; Foxon, p.274], 8vo, printed for J.B. and sold by Benj. Tooke, 1713
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Footnotes
- The only major collection of poems by one of the earliest published female poets. Anne Finch was much admired and encouraged by her friends Swift and Pope, and came to be regarded by the Romantics, Wordsworth in particular, as possibly the finest female poet prior to the nineteenth century.
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