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Rowe, Elizabeth [Singer].
Devout Exercises of the Heart, in Meditation and Soliloquy, Prayer and Praise. By the late pious and ingenious Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe. Reviewed and published at her request, by I. Watts, D. D.... Embellished with Superb Engravings.
Publisher: C. Cooke London;
Date of Publication: 1796
Stock Code: 10148
Cooke’s Edition. Duodecimo, pp. 140, [2] contents. With four engraved plates, including frontispiece portrait and engraved title-page and three engraved tail-pieces. Bound in a contemporary binding of full straight grain scarlet morocco, with gilt rolled panels; gilt rolled board edges; gilt fillets across spine and gilt spine titles in a vernacular style; blue marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Very minimal wear to corners of morocco, otherwise a very neat, and exceptionally clean and bright copy. A very pretty copy of this collection which eloquently grapples with themes of death, devotion and mortality. Dissenter, proto-feminist, and poet Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674-1737) has been described by scholars as “stylistically and thematically radical for her time” Elegantly illustrated with four engraved plates including a frontispiece portrait of Rowe and an elaborately engraved title-page with memento mori symbolism. £180.00