Bonhams 1793 : HEBER (REGINALD) Palestine. A Poem. Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, MDCCIII. To Which is Added, The Passage of the Red Sea. A Fragment, 1809

Palestine. A Poem. Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, MDCCIII. To Which is Added, The Passage of the Red Sea. A Fragment, half-title, bookplate of Marianne Ford, contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, extremities a trifle rubbed, 4to, Longman, 1809

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Footnotes

Heber won the Newdigate Prize for English verse with this poem in 1803. This copy has a 22-line manuscript poem on the flyleaf by Thomas Ford, "Lines written on hearing 'Palestine' recited at Oxford in the year 1803."

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