Psyche : With Other Poems. By The Late Mrs. Henry Tighe.

London : Printed For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1811 .. Third edition. A very good half leather binding. 8vo. pp.xv /[1p.]/pp.314 + portrait frontis . Brown calf spine and corners over orange marbled boards. Edges rubbed and bumped. Smooth spine with old red leather title label: "Tighe's Poems". Armorial bookplate to verso of the front board: "Frederick Lovell Keays." With motto: "In Deo Solo Spes Mea" . Inked owner's inscription also to verso of front board: "Mrs Gyles, 64 Upper Seymour St., Portman Sqr." Rough inked notes to front free-endpapers. Portrait frontis "Composed after Romney pinx. Caroline Watson Engraver to her Majesty sculpt." Light foxing to endpapers and frontis, otherwise cleane English text throughout. VG. ** Family History records show that Frederick Lovell Keays 1842-1905 . Born in Islington, London, England on 27th March 1842 to Frederick Keays and Elizabeth Austin Smith. Frederick Lovell Keays is listed as a Soliictor in the census reurns. He married Ruth Wood Mason in 1870, and they had 8 children. *** 1851 Census returns show that Sarah Gyles aged 70 (Widow) was living at 64 Upper Seymour Street, with her son and daughter. **** "Mary Tighe (9 October 1772 � 24 March 1810) was an Irish poet. Mary Blackford (or Blanchford) was born in Dublin, 9 October 1772. Her parents were Theodosia Tighe, a Methodist leader, and William Blachford (d.1773?), a Church of Ireland clergyman and librarian. She had a strict religious upbringing, and when she was twenty-one she married Henry Tighe (1768�1836), her first cousin and a member of the Parliament of Ireland for Inistioge, County Kilkenny. The marriage is said to have been unhappy, though little is known. The year following her death, a new edition of Psyche was released, along with some previously unpublished poems; it was this edition that established her literary reputation. John Keats was one of her admirers and paid tribute to her in his poem, "To Some Ladies". Pam Perkins writes that "despite the bleakness of many of the short poems in the 1811 volume, in much of the nineteenth-century writing on Tighe there is a tendency to make her an exemplar of patiently (and picturesquely) long-suffering femininity, a tendency exemplified most famously in Felicia Hemans's tribute to her, 'The Grave of a Poetess'." - See Wikipedia