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WILLOUGHBY, R. The plaintive muse, or poems sacred to religion.

Derby. Printed by G. Wilkins, 1820. First edition.
8vo. vi, [6], 73pp, [3]. With a list of subscribers. Original publisher's powder blue boards. Rubbed and discoloured, spine worn. recent book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, contemporary inked ownership inscription of Rebecca Hampshire to recto of FFEP.
A rare survival of the sole edition, in original unsophisticated state, of a provincially published collection of devotional poetry by Derby-based schoolmaster R. Willoughby, of whom little is known.

OCLC records copies at just five locations (BL, California, Liverpool, Nottingham, Stanford); COPAC adds further (East Anglia, NT, and Oxford Brookes).
£ 100.00 Antiquates Ref: 32371