Manners (Catherine Rebecca) Poems, second edition, manuscript corrections in the author's hand to 2 poems, with 5 line note to one, engraved portrait frontispiece, John Bell, 1793 bound with Review of Poetry, Ancient and Modern. A Poem, first edition, manuscript corrections in the author's hand to 4 pages, one with 4 line note, lacking half-title, J.Booth, 1799, together 2 works in 1 vol., autograph poem signed "Catherine Huntingtower, September 19, 1842" bound at rear, pencil inscription "Given to me by my highly esteemed & valued friend Lady Huntingtower formerly Lady Manners" to front free endpaper, 19th century morocco, gilt, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, g.e., 4to.

⁂ Catherine Manners, (1766-1852), married William Manners, later Lord Huntingtower in 1790. She published two works of poetry, the copies of which in this lot have manuscript corrections. For example in the poem "Lines addressed to a Mother in Ireland" she alters the word "tedious" to "lonely", explaining in the margin "I have, on reflection, altered tedious to lonely; or no hour, except in pain, or sickness or dull company, could ever have tedious to a mind so active & enlightened as that of my dear mother was". Bound in with this copy is a 2-verse manuscript poem "What to thee is golden hair?/What are features heavenly fair?/Teeth of pearl & breast of snow/Eyes that sparkle, cheeks that glow?" with the author's explanation of how she came to write it.