Offered THE TRIUMPHS OF TEMPER by William Hayley (1745-1820) A Poem IN Six Cantos 1781 Second Edition (printed same year as the first) Contemporary quarter calf marbled boards front board detached but present first free endpaper detached but present, spine chipped with loss bumped corners.
A didactic allegorical poem composed of rhyming couplets that was designed to teach the young women of the time the virtues of possessing a pleasant nature.