BISHOP (Samuel): — Poems on Various Subjects. The Second Edition.
London: Printed by S. Strahan...For Cadell and Davies..., inter alia, 1800. 2 volumes. 8vo, 160 x 90 mms., pp. xxiii [xxiv note about press errors], 191 [192 blank]; viii, 192, contemporary tree calf, gilt spines, red leather labels; joints rubbed, corners a bit worn, but a very good set with the autograph \"John Kearney\" on the title-page of each volume. THe poet and school teacher Samuel Bishop (1731 - 1795) wrote a number of poems but published very few in his lifetime. A fine quarto edition was published in 1796 after his death, edited and produced by Thomas Clare, who married Bishop's widow. ODNB notes that Southey said of him, that \"no other poet crowds so many syllables into a verse His domestic poems breathe a Dutch spiritby which I mean a very amiable and happy feeling of domestic duties and enjoyments.\" The Monthly Magazine in 1796 announced the subscription volume of 1796: \"Proposals have been circulated, soliciting subscribers for the publication of the Poetical Works of the Rev. Samuel Bishop. This gentleman's known talents may be expected to procure a respectable subscription.\"