The royal exile; or, Poetical epistles of Mary, Queen of Scots, during her captivity in England : with other original poems /
Roberts, Mary.
Roberts, Samuel,1763-1848.
Montgomery, James,1771-1854.
Gardyne, Alexander,1801-1885,former owner,StEdNL
London : published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, and Taylor & Hessey; sold by Miss Gales, and the other booksellers in Sheffield,
1822.
Young lady = Mary Roberts; her father = Samuel Roberts, Sheffield manufacturer and writer on social issues.
The book is dedicated to Hannah More, and a prefatory description of Sheffield's Aged Female Society (est. 1810) suggests that there was a charitable purpose in publishing the book. There is also a list of subscribers on pp. xiii-xviii, including figures such as William Wilberforce, the Archbishop of York and the dedicatee herself.
Printed at the press of Scottish poet, James Montgomery, who was based in Sheffield.
With MS notes on scraps of envelopes (dated 1867) by book collector Alexander Gardyne, pinned to front free endpapers.
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587.
England Sheffield.