Search Results: psyche with other poems first american by tighe mrs henry

Philadelphia: J. & A.Y. Humphreys, 1812. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. 12mo. 230 pp. Full polished calf, lettered and decorated in gilt and blind. Gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Portrait frontispiece. Corners and edges rubbed, foxing to preliminaries. Ownership inscription dated 1815 on title-page. One leaf (pp. 117-18) creased at corner. Hinges secure. Originally published in an edition of fifty copies in 1805, Tighe's poem was reprinted posthumously by Longmans following her death in 1810 and became quite popular, drawing admirers such as John Keats. It went through four London editions before this first American printing. Shaw & Shoemaker 26883.