SUSSEX. – William HAYLEY. The Triumphs of Temper, a Poem: In Six Cantos. Chichester: by William Mason for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817. New edition, small 8vo (159 x 90mm.) Copper-engraved frontispiece in colours by T.B. Brown after George Romney. (Toning, offsetting to title, lacking rear blank?) Near contemporary brown full diced morocco (rebacked, paper label to spine, endpapers replaced). Note: Hayley’s influential poem that was reprinted many times after the first edition of 1781. Provenance: Sussex County Council (stamps verso the title). – And a further ten volumes of poetry, mostly Sussex related (including Charles Croker’s ‘The Vale Of Obscurity’, 1830, 4to, and Thomas Bradford’s ‘Poetical Pieces… to which are Added A Sonnet on His Death, and Epitaph, written by William Hayley, Esq.’, 1808, 4to, and Charlotte Smith’s ‘Elegiac Sonnets’, fifth edition, 1789, 8vo, and ‘Song Favours’ by C.W. Dalmon, limited edition, being one of 450 copies, 1895, 8vo, and Stuart Guthrie’s ‘The Death and Burial of Cock Robin, an Elegy’, 1932, 8vo) (11).