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The lament of the Emerald Isle

Print Book, English, 1818
7th ed., with additions View all formats and editions
Printed for William Hone, London, 1818
Elegiac poetry, English
[i-ii], [2], [iii]-ix, [1], 11-21, [1] ; 23 cm
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A poem of irregular stanzas
Advertisment (p. [ii])--explaining expanded [fifth] edition: "Mr. Phillips has just transmitted to the publisher two additional stanzas, which are incorporated in this the fifth, edition of the monody: one stanza is at p. 18, and the other at p. 20."
On title page verso and p. 21: J. M'Creery, Printer, Black-Horse-Court, London
Includes portrait frontispiece of Princess Charlotte, engraved by R. Page and published by J. Robins & Co., Ivy Lane, London, Dec. 23, 1820
Dedication (p. [v]): "To the most desolate woman in the world The Princess of Wales this tribute of the sincerest sympathy is repectfully inscribed."
Formerly in the personal collection of Anne and F.G. Renier