The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems. Bound with Gertrde of Wyoming; A Pennsylvania Tale. And Other Poems. 2 volumes in 1.

Campbell, Thomas.

Published by London: Printed for the Author, by T. Bensley. 1803 & 1809.

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Seventh Edition, corrected and enlarged, 4to., pp: xi,[i],[1]-131[1], half title, engraved frontispiece of 'Lochiel's Warning', with an engraving to verso of page xi, inscribed in ink to head of title page 'John Gladstone/Liverpool/1883', foxing to prelims, otherwise very good. BOUND WITH Thomas Campbell. Gertrude of Wyoming; A Pennsylvania Tale. And Other Poems. London: Printed by T. Bensley, Published for the Author by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 1809. First edition, 4to., pp: iv,[1]-134, complete with the errata slip tipped in before part 1 & the Advertisement leaf, endpapers foxed, with the Fasque (Gladstone) bookplate pasted to front pastedown, bound in half calf, gilt, marbled boards, spine gilt ruled with leather label lettered 'Pleasures of Hope & Gertrude', worn & rubbed, however sound & very good. Gertrude of Wyoming took as its subject the 1778 American Revolutionary War Battle in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania between pro-revolution colonists and British Loyalists with their Iroquois allies. Three hundred colonists were massacred, tortured, and many killed after surrendering. British critics attacked Campbell for this poem, and Walter Scott suggested that the theme was not appropriate since it was "one in which Britain was disgraced by the atrocities of her pretended adherents". Called the greatest example of Campbell's genius by a contemporary American reviewer. Sabin 10268.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems. Bound with Gertrde of Wyoming; A Pennsylvania Tale. And Other Poems. 2 volumes in 1.
• Publisher: London: Printed for the Author, by T. Bensley. 1803 & 1809.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition