A collection of poems vol. III 1793. [Commonplace book]; LiverpoolBinns, ThomasengManuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 71 poems by various 18th-century authors, primarily on meditative or melancholy subjects. Such poems include On the death of a beloved father; Monody on the death of a lady who died in childbed; Elegy written on the plain of Fontenoy; Elegy on Mary Blandy; and On the death of Deborah Carleton. The collection, moreover, contains a number of poems about non-European cultures, including Peru by Helen Maria Williams; The wrongs of Africa by William Roscoe; Oriental Eclogues by William Collins; and Stanzas to fancy written in the West Indies. Other poets represented in the collection include Ambrose Philips, William Cowper, and William Whitehead. The volume also contains a number of humorous verses by John ByronIn English.On title page: A Collection of Poems. Vol. III. Thomas Binns Liverpool 1793.Table of contents at end of manuscript.Binding: half calf over marbled boards. In gilt on spine: Collection of Poems 3.