xxiv, 207, [1] pages printed pages. Printed by T.C. Johns, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. Original grey endpapers. Contemporary ink ownership inscription, dated 1839. Provenance: Jane Ballard of Southampton. Some mild age-toning. 52 x 62 mm. Contemporary full red-brown calf; spine with gilt blocked title and horizontal gilt rules; covers with blind tooled double borders and corner-pieces withing single gilt borders. Very slight rubbing at corners and edges. Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann, nor Welsh. OCLC, 1434160329. WorldCat locates 2 copies worldwide (Limerick, and Harvard University Libraries). Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674-1737) was an early popular radical female writer and proto-feminist, outselling even Robinson Crusoe and Clarissa at the time. Esteemed writers called her the "ornament of her sex and age," a benchmark for female piety and literary talent. Devout Exercises of the Heart, written in Frome, Somerset, far from London's literary center, is interesting for its intimate, personal, meditative style; it was published posthumously and reviewed by Stoke Newington poet and lyricist Isaac Watts, revealing Elizabeth's deep, maturing spirituality later in life. It provides a special insight on 18th-century female self-examination, which resonated deeply then with readers and influenced later writers.