MASON, WILLIAM . — Crumbs from The Master's Table: Or, Select Sentences, Doctrinal, Practical, And Experimental. From A Work With This Title. By W. Mason. Third Edition.

London: Religious Tract Society [ Printed by C. Whittingham, Chiswick.] - no date c. 1860? 0. A very good miniature full leather binding. 16mo. 7cm x 5.5cm x 1.3cm. Polished brown calf. Spine with 3 raised bands, blind stamp decoaration and original black leather title label. Previous owners signature to front free-endpaper: "Waveney L. Dring, 1941". Clean text throughout. VG. ** William Mason (1725 – 1797) was an English poet, editor and gardener. He was born in Hull and studied at St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1754 and held a number of posts in the church. Among his works, none of them highly regarded today, are the historical tragedies Elfrida (1752) and Caractacus (1759) and a long poem on gardening, The English Garden (three volumes, 1772-82). His garden designs included one for the 2nd Earl of Harcourt. He published the Poems of Mr Gray, a friend who was a great influence on his own work in 1774.." - from wikipedia. *** Family history records show: "Waveney Lang Dring was born in October 1924, her father, Albert, was 32, and her mother, Alice, was 32. She married Sydney John Crawford in April 1961 in Braintree, Essex. She died in April 2005 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, at the age of 80.".