Records of Woman: With Other Poems

New-York: William B. Gilley, 1828. 12mo (17cm.); contemporary full brown gilt-ruled polished calf, gilt spine; 324pp. Extremities a bit scuffed, chipping to spine leather, foxing throughout textblock, slightly later clipping on the life of the author in French tipped to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound, better than often seen. Published the same year as the Boston edition (no priority). Poetry collection by the English author, the first half devoted to paeans to women, both fictional and historical. The work was her most popular, documenting "the courage, nobility, and tragedy of women's lives; embedded in their painful situations lies a critique of the domestic ideal of patriarchal values" (Paula R. Feldman, "British Women Poets of the Romantic Era" (2001), p. 278). SHOEMAKER 33524.