MORE (Hannah): Sacred Dramas: Chiefly intended for Young Persons, The Subjects taken from the Bible. To which is added, Sensibility, An Epistle. Twenty-first Edition, with Additions. Bound with: The Search after Happiness: A Pastoral Drama. , London: (1) Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817; (2) from the Chiswick Press, by C. Whittingham, 1818;

16mo, pp.200; 72. Both texts have attractive engraved title-pages, and the second has small engravings in the body of the text. Full brown calf somewhat rubbed and nibbled (mice or silverfish?), but with an attractive gilt tooled design of crossed diagonal lines with ornaments in each angle and surrounding border. Marbled e.p.s. Internally a clean, tight copy. Three leaves have been unevenly trimmed with slight loss of text at the corner of one leaf (pp.45-50). Delicate calligraphic signature on prelim. blank dated 1825. Neither of these editions is listed in NSTC, which has a 20th edition of Sacred Dramas (1815), and lists imprints only of 1816 and 1823 of The Search After Happiness. (Book ref. 2105)  £30.00

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