Women poets.- Parsons (Letitia) Verses, Hymns and Poems, on Various Subjects; Composed under a long Series of Affliction and Deprivation of Sight, [part 1 only], book-label of J.O. Edwards to verso of title, title with small loss to upper blank corner and few very small holes affecting few letters, some light spotting and staining, lightly browned throughout, modern wrappers, Tonbrige, T. Dakens, 1815 § Opie (Amelia) Lays for the Dead, first edition, lithographed frontispiece, book-label of J.O. Edwards, contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, Contents leaves with some omitted names supplied in contemporary ink manuscript, some light browning and spotting, later green morocco, spine and extremities slightly darkened, some faint spotting to lower cover, rubbing to joints and extremities, t.e.g., Longman, Rees, Orme &c, 1834; and others, 19th century poetry by women, one by Mary Russell Mitford with A.L.s. from the author laid down, 8vo (17)

⁂ The first mentioned the first part only, with a second part numbering 42pp. printed by T. Dakens in the same year. Letitia Parsons (1744-1806) was about thirty when she underwent a conversion experience. In the last twenty years of her life she suffered from poor health and went blind in her last years. The two parts of her Verses appear to have been first published in 1806 and 1808.