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Emma Hamilton in an attitude towards a mimosa plant, causing it to demonstrate sensibility. Stipple engraving by R. Earlom, 1789, after G. Romney.

William Hayley. Engraving by R. Cooper, 1823, after G. Engleheart.

William Hayley. Stipple engraving by J. Hopwood, 1807.

William Hayley. Stipple engraving by Caroline Watson, 1823, after G. Romney.

John Nichols, the printer stands in anger behind a desk as his hands rest on two volumes. Etching, 1790, by T. Rowlandson.

Select poems, &c / by the late John Dawes Worgan, of Bristol, who died on the 25th of July 1809, aged nineteen years. To which are added some particulars of his life and character, by an early friend and associate. With a preface, by William Hayley, esq.

Ode, inscribed to John Howard, author of "The state of English and foreign prisons" ... / By William Hayley.

A philosophical, historical, and moral essay on old maids / By a friend to the sisterhood [i.e. W. Hayley].

Select poems, &c / by the late John Dawes Worgan, of Bristol, who died on the twenty-fifth of July 1809, aged nineteen years ; to which are added, some particulars of his life and character, by an early friend and associate ; with a preface, by William Hayley.

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Select poems, &c / by the late John Dawes Worgan, of Bristol, who died on the 25th of July 1809, aged nineteen years. To which are added some particulars of his life and character, by an early friend and associate. With a preface, by William Hayley, esq.

Ode, inscribed to John Howard, author of "The state of English and foreign prisons" ... / By William Hayley.

A philosophical, historical, and moral essay on old maids / By a friend to the sisterhood [i.e. W. Hayley].

Select poems, &c / by the late John Dawes Worgan, of Bristol, who died on the twenty-fifth of July 1809, aged nineteen years ; to which are added, some particulars of his life and character, by an early friend and associate ; with a preface, by William Hayley.