1800 Night Thoughts on Life Death & Immortality Edward Young Berwick printing

Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. To which is added a Paraphrase, on part of the book of Job

by Edward Young, L.L.D. 

Printed for H Richardson, Berwick, [no date but c. 1800]

Bound in full leather binding, front board detached

270 pages.

An uncommon edition of Young's classic poem which was first published in nine parts (or "nights") between 1742 and 1745. The poem is written in blank verse and describes the poet's musings on death over a series of nine "nights" in which he ponders the loss of his wife and friends, and laments human frailties.

Condition: Fair to Good. Worn binding, front board detached, ownership inscriptions to endpapers.