The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-04 00:00:00

SOUTHEY'S COMPLETE WORKS OF COWPER,
WITH A LIFE BY THE EDITOR..

'MESSRS. BALDWIN and CRADOCK beg
to inform the public that they have had in
.preparation
for more than eighteen months a Complete Edition of the Works
of this favourite Poet, in the popular form of Byron,•:Crabbe,
Edgeworth, &c., an announcement of which was given in the Mid-
summer of last• year in all the Periodicals. Messrs. Baldwin and
Cradock were urged to this undertaking by frequent calls made for
a uniform Edition of all the Works of Cowper, with a Life that
would do more justice to the Author than those of Hayloy and
others. To accomplish this object, and do credit to themselves,
they placed the whole in the hands of Dr. Southey, and this great
Biogrdpher has nearly completed a Life of the Poet, comprising in
it most of the literary history of England during half a century ;
to which he has added a Life of Newton, and Memoirs of. Madame
Guion, with numerous Notes and Illustrations scattered throughout
the Works. The CORRESPONDENCE will be ENRICHED
by considerably more than A HUNDRED ORIGINAL LET-
TERS, NEVER BEFORE PRINTED.

The Publishers have employed the first Artists of the age to
engrave the fine original drawings prepared expressly for this Edi-
-tion. The Portraits to be given are from the most authentic
originals, and have been procured at great cost and labour.
Having thus candidly stated their preparations, and-the publicity
given to them so many months ago, Messrs. Baldwin and Cradock
cannot doubt but that all will see the injustice done to them by a
house announcing another edition of Cowper's Works for imme-
diate publication, and that after a preparation of less than six
weeks, as can be proved by letters written by these parties to
Messrs. Baldwin and Cradock. How such an undertaking can be
perfected in the time, it is difficult to understand. These publish-
ers have certainly saved much labour by reprinting the Life by
Hayley (written upwards of thirty years since); but those who are
acquainted with engraving know that a plate of any value cannot
ever. iie completed in less than three months after the artist has
received the drawing which he is to copy. Messrs. Baldwin and
Cradock cannot believe that the public will be satisfied with an
edition got up in such haste, and presenting so little that is new
(for the letters mentioned in their Prospectus have been printed
upwards of eleven years, and can readily be purchased), when Dr.
Southey's edition is nearly ready for publication, enriched as it is
by his labours and so much original matter ; with plates exquisitely
engraved, from fine original drawings of scenery taken on the spot
by an artist of great celebrity.
Messrs. Baldwin and Cradock have much pleasure in stating that
a Prospectus of their edition will be ready in a few days, and speci-
mens of the Engravings be placed in the hands of every respectable
Bookseller for public inspection. In the Prospectus the Publishers
also, announce a series of Landscape Illustrations and other plates,
as a Companion to Southey 's Edition of Cowper; thus presenting
to the public what they flatter themselves will be considered the
STANDARD EDITION of the WORKS of COWPER.
London : Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster-row.