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XVII.
In eight vols. bound in embossed cloth and lettered.
WITH THE BEAUTIFUL EMBELLISHMENTS BY THE FINDENS.
From Drawings taken on the spot expressly for this work, by
J. D. Harding, Esq.
COWPER'S LIFE AND WORKS.
The Complete Stereotype Edition.
Including the whole of
HIS PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
Chronologically arranged, and forming the First and only Complete Collection
of his admirable Letters that has been or can be published; a
considerable proportion of them being still Copyright, and exclusively
appropriated to this Edition.
Revised, Arranged, and Edited by
REV. T. S. GRIMSHAWE, A. M.
Rector of Burton, Northamptonshire, and Vicar of Biddenham, Bedfordshire
Author of “the life of the Rev. Legh Richmond.”
WITH AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF COWPER.
BY THE REV. J. CUNNINGHAM.
VICAR OF HARROW.
The following are from the numerous Critical Notices.
“A delightful work. The Letters, now for the first time incorporated,
are even better than those which have so long secured the public favor.
Their unaffected pleasantry, abundant variety, and unstudied elequence
remind us of the best efforts of Addison and Steele, over which authors
Cowper had the advantage in a more generally informed understanding.”
—Times.
“The works of Cowper need no recommendation; they are incorporated
into our living literature, and will be read as long as men shall
read for amusement, or to gather wisdom, of which no poet is a greater
teacher. The peculiar merit of the present edition is, that it contains
the whole of Cowper's Private Correspondence.”
—Courier.
“An elegant edition of the writings of Cowper, his Life and Letters,
now first completed by the introduction of his `Private Correspondence.'
The engravings are very beautiful, and render the work fit for the library
of the most fastidious, while the price is within the compass of the mechanic.
The letters of the amiable Cowper cannot be too extensively
circulated.”
—Dispatch.
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