Poetical sketches
Subtitle: the profession, the broken heart, etc. : with stanzas for music, and other poems
By: 1824
Contributors: Bentley, Samuel, 1785-1868; Bentley, Richard, 1794-1864; Watts, Zillah Madonna; Wither, George, 1588-1667; Brockedon, William, 1787-1854; Roberts, E. L.; Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834; Heath, Charles, 1785-1848; S. and R. Bentley; Hurst, Robinson, and Co; Archibald Constable & Co; Francis J. Sypher, Jr. Library (Columbia University. Libraries)
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Printed for Hurst, Robinson, & Co., 90 Cheapside, Pall-Mall; Archibald Constable, & Co.
Published: 1824
Place of publication: London; Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: English poetry; Sonnets; Songs; Texts; Musicals; Librettos
Notes: Signatures: [A]⁸ B-N⁸ ; 2 leaves tipped in between A² and A³ ; vertical chain lines.

Includes : untitled first part containing ca. 30 short poems ; Sonnets : ca. 10 sonnets ; Stanzas for music : ca. 16 song lyrics, without music.

Additional t.p. tipped into first signature : includes engraved vignette signed : "Drawn by W. Brockedon" and "Engraved by E.L. Roberts" and quote : "'Tis evening: on Abruzzo's hill / The summer sun is lingering still."

[1] leaf with engraved vignette signed : "Drawn by T. Stothard, R.A." and "Engraved by Chas. Heath" and quote : "The profession : ---Then they fling / The snow-white veil aside, but ere they bring / The last black ensign of the awful rite, / In shroudless beauty stands that lovely thing."

T.p. quatrain : "The moving accident is not my trade ; / To freeze the blood I have no ready arts ; / 'Tis my delight alone in summer shade / To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts." (Wordsworth).

Dedication : "To Zillah Madonna Watts : This volume is most affectionately inscribed."--Page [v].

Introductory poem, signed Wither. -- p. [vii].

Advertisement : " ... several new poems will be found in the present edition ... with one or two exceptions, the contents of this volume were written several years ago - between the ages of 16 and 21." (signed A.A.W. London. June 25, 1824) -- p. [xi]-xi.

Contents : divided into three sections : untitled section ; Sonnets ; Stanzas for music -- p. [xiii]-xv.

Erratum : p. xv.

Notes : p. 181-189.

"Reviewers opinions of the work" : includes 9 laudatory reviews of author's poetry. -- [1]-[2] at back of book.

Sypher, F. J., L.E.L. Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 97

Gift; Francis J. Sypher, Jr.; 11 May 2015.