Lot 08541

SANDERSON Thomas, ORIGINAL POEMS, Carlisle, Printed by F. Jollie and sold by W. Clarke, J. Robson, and R. Faulder, London, 1800. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. In 12mo, pp. [iv] v – xxiii [xxiv blank], 238, including 15 page list of subscribers at the beginning.

Thomas Sanderson (1759-1829) was a schoolmaster and friend of the Cumbrian poets Robert Anderson, and Josiah Relph. He wrote a memoir of Relph, as well as an elegy which appears here, and compiled A Companion to the Lakes. This collection, ‘written in a sequestered village’, includes ‘Shakespeare, the Warwickshire Thief’, ‘Elegy to the memory of Robert Burns the Scottish poet’, ‘Sonnet to the Right Hon. Edmund Burke’, and ‘Ode to the Genius of Cumberland’.

On inside cover there is a ex-libris label showing the Gustance Family Crest and the name Myles Henry Gustance. The surname Gustance (Cuttance, Constance, Custance etc) appears already from the 13th century and descendants are today in the US, Canada, Australia. The motto “APPETITUS RATIONI PAREAT” answers from the 18th onwards. Contemporary half-calf, corners and joints rubbed, spine restored; sporadic spotting inside and slight soiling of text.