HANKINSON (Rev. Thomas Edward). Five Seatonian prize poems bound in one. Venice. A Poem Written for the Chancellor's Prize Medal, 1826. [Cambridge: s.n., 1826.] [19, [1]pp. [Bound with:] ----. David Playing the Harp before Saul. A Seatonian Poem. Cambridge: Printed by and for J. Smith, Printer to the University, 1831. 26pp. [Bound with:] ----. The Druids. A Poem. Cambridge: Printed by J. Smith, Printer to the University, 1827. [2], 25, [1]pp. [Bound with:] ----. The Druids. A Poem [variant edition]. Cambridge: Printed by James Hodson, 1827. 4, [2], [5]-15, [1]pp. ----. The Plague Stayed. A Seatonian Poem.1832

Cambridge: Printed by and for J. Smith, Printer to the University, [6], [3]-11, [3]pp., with half-title, inscribed presentation copy to author's brother. 5 works bound in one, 8vo, 210 x 130 mm), cont. half crimson morocco, marbled boards, rubbed, tear repair to upper joint of spine. Rev. Thomas Edward Hankinson (1805-1843), born in King's Lynn and educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (M.A. 1831) where he won the Seatonian prize for poetry nine times. Curate at Castle Rising, Norfolk (1828–9), and St Nicholas Chapel, King's Lynn (1829–35), he became incumbent of St Matthew's Chapel, Denmark Hill (1835–43). Hankinson spent much of his leisure time in writing for the Seatonian prize at Cambridge for English verse, of which he was nine times the winner between 1831 and 1842. Provenance: From the Norfolk library of Ron Fiske.