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POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.
by Oliver, Isabella (1777-1843)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
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Kinzers, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
A. Loudon, (Whitehall), Carlisle, PA: ., 1805 pp. 5, (vi)-ix, (11)-216. Foxed. Browned. Title page leather stained. 12mo. 170 mm. Original full leather binding, worn. Original leather spine label. Boards almost detached. Hardbound. Fair. Includes a good Subscriber's List broken down by counties. Many women are listed as subscribers. Isabella Oliver, (1771-1843), once known as the poetess of the Conodoguinet, or that creek s muse, Born on the estate of her father, James Oliver, Esq. (1731 1786). In 1812 she married Capt. Alexander Sharp who was 55 ars old and had five sons and a daughter from a previous marriage. She enjoyed casting her thoughts into rhymes and composed her poems in her mind entire before a friend set them down on paper from her recitation. In this fashion she prepared eighty-five poems for what has now become the most popular of all the early books printed in Carlisle. She wrote of love, the misery of war, her hatred of slavery, and many other facets of life. She personalized them, addressing them to friends by their initials, and it was this habit which made her work popular. In this book, published by Archibald Loudon, the list of subscribers runs to more than 1,000 names. The subjects of her poems include a memorial of Rev. Dr. Charles Nisbet, the first president of Dickinson College, and the deaths of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. Her poems are in the Augustan Age and other 18th-century forms, although they include one which D. Wilson Thompson identified as a 17th century idea in 18th century dress. S&S/AI 9061/9346. PAIMP 4. Hardcover. Fair.
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- Title
- POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.
- Author
- Oliver, Isabella (1777-1843)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A. Loudon, (Whitehall), Carlisle, PA: .
- Date Published
- 1805
- Keywords
- PENNSYLVANIA IMPRINTS EARLY AMERICAN AMERICANA POETRY WOMEN VICTORIAN ISABELLA OLIVER POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS CARLISLE IMPRINT 1805
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- POETRY; EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS; WOMEN;
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THE FAMILY ALBUM
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Kinzers, Pennsylvania
About THE FAMILY ALBUM
Ron Lieberman, has been an antiquarian bookseller, rare book appraiser, and library consultant for Fifty years. His firm, The Family Album, has issued a series of exceptional catalogs and bibliographic references in a variety of fields, including: Incunabula; Pennsylvania-Americana; German-Americana; Fine Book Bindings; Early Photographica; Printing History & Typography; Classics from the Great Scholar / Printers; Etc. He was the instructor for a series of valuable workshops and courses in the history, taste, and technique of book collecting. He frequently lectures before professional groups of librarians and archivists on: the book trade; collection and building security; disaster preparedness; appraisals; and preservation, conservation, and binding. He has also often appeared on radio and television popularizing the pleasant hobby of antique book collecting. His expert opinion on the book collecting market; values of archives and manuscripts; collection preservation & security; historic photographs; and the value of rare books has been sought by sources as diverse as: the Historical & Museum Commission of PA; the PA State Library; the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Institution; the FBI; American Bible Society; Money Magazine; Kipplinger Magazine; Conservation Centers; Warmans Antique Price Guides; U.S.A. Today; as well as Universities, Colleges, and Historical Societies throughout the United States. As one of the organizers of the World Library Fund, Mr. Lieberman provides professional analyses of library collections, and helps plan library development for public and private institutions in the United States and abroad. He was a Member of the Board of Governors of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (A.B.A.A.), and Chairman of the A.B.A.A. Security Committee. He was a long-time regular member of the Security Committee of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) of the American Library Association (ALA); and was the Past President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter, A.B.A.A. Mr. Lieberman was also, for many years, a consulting editor and contributor to the Haworth Press journal: "College & Undergraduate Libraries" American Library Association (ALA); + ACRL/RBMS [For 35 Continuous Years] // PA Library Association (PLA) // Bibliographical Society of America // Middle Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) // Society for the History of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing (SHARP) // Philobiblon Club // Etc. Etc.
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- Title Page
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fair
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- Spine Label
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...