Description: Normal.dotm 0 0 1 169 966 Southern Connecticut State University 8 1 1186 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Book Description: The British Album. Containing the Poems of Della Crusca, Anna Matilda, Arley, Benedict, the Bard etc. Revised and Corrected by Their Respective Authors. First American Edition from the fourth London Edition. Boston: Printed by and for Belknap and Hall, 1793. 324 pages plus two-page table of contents in the rear. Cover in full leather, 4 ¼” x 6 ½”. Staining to top of first few pages including frontispiece portraits of Della Crusca and Anna Matilda. Remainder of pages relatively clean wiuth a small stain here and there. Cracking to front hinge. “Social Library” written on one of the front endpapers. Condition overall very good for an 18th century imprint. The British Album was one of the first publications to bring before the public the writings of a group of English authors living in Florence and styling themselves the Della Cruscans. Della Crusca has been identified as the poet Robert Merry (1755 - 1798). For the most part, the Della Cruscan poets received scathing reviews. Walter Scott called them "a set of coxcombs who have humbugged the world long enough," while Hazlitt and Macaulay thought them to be less than dilettantes.
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Year Printed: 1793
Modified Item: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Poetry
Binding: Leather
Author: Della Crusca, Anna Matilda
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: Belknap and Hall
Place of Publication: Boston
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
