Night thoughts,: on life, death, and immortality, A Poem. To which are added, A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, by Edward Young, L.L.D., with the life of the author.

12mo, pp. [xiv], [ii], 300; with engraved frontispiece; apart from some light offsetting from the frontispiece, a clean crisp copy throughout; in contemporary sprinkled calf, spine ruled and tooled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, some minor rubbing, but overall a very desirable copy, with neat presentation inscription on front pastedown: 'Notting Hill House Boarding School. This book was presented to Miss Ann Pocock, at the Midsummer Vacation 1794. In Approbation of her uniform good conduct', with the later armorial bookplate of J. Hornsby Wright opposite.

Uncommon Minerva press edition of one of the most profound meditative poems of the century, and an often-unrecognised source of many quotations usually thought of as Shakespearean: 'Procrastination is the thief of time', 'Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep'.

^gProvenance:^g Notting Hill House, today called Aubrey House, was let to Mrs Catterine Tutty in 1791 where she established a boarding school. She had run a similar boarding school at Hertford before 1755 and later at Hoddeston , also in Hertfordshire, before moving to London. She continued to teach at Notting Hill until her death at 78 in 1803. We have not been able to identify Ann Pocock, although the later owner Joseph Hornsby Wright, (1817-1885) carefully placed his bookplate facing the inscription so there must have been some filial connection. Wright lived at 3 Abbey Road in London, so the book would have been housed there for a number of years, however, he and his family were long gone when the Beatles took possession of the premises for their recording sessions.