The Triumphs of Temper

THE

TRIUMPHS

OF

T E M P E R

A POEM

IN SIX CANTOS

BY WILLIAM HAYLEY ESQ

______________

THE TENTH EDITION, CORRECTED

LONDON

CADELL AND DAVIES

1799

DESCRIPTION

(ii) + 163pp + (iv)

Books measure 160mm x 100mm approximately.

Bound in full tan "flame" leather. Spine with five bands and elaborate gilt decoration to compartments and olive title label. A number of full page engravings throughout.

CONDITION

Binding is in good condition with boards firmly attached with strong hinges, very slight cracking to upper one inch of front board. There is occasional wear and scuffs to extremities with some minor bumping to corners. Gilt work very clean and bright. Internally the pages are in good clean uniform condition throughout although with just an occasional spot to end-papers. No inscriptions.

INTERESTING

William Hayley (1745 to 1820) was an English writer, best known as the biographer of his friend William Cowper. Born at Chichester, he was sent to Eton in 1757, and to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1762; his connection with the Middle Temple, London, where he was admitted in 1766, was merely nominal. So great was Hayley's fame that on Thomas Warton's death in 1790 he was offered the laureateship, which he refused. In 1792, while writing the Life of Milton, Hayley made Cowper's acquaintance. A warm friendship sprang up between the two which lasted till Cowper's death in 1800. Hayley indeed was mainly instrumental in getting Cowper his pension.