Elegant Extracts: Being a Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, From the Most Eminent British Poets

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Published by John Sharpe, London, 1820

About this Item

Two pocket-sized volumes from this marvellous series of collected pieces of writing. Volume I (Book I and II) Devotional and Moral. Volume II (Book III and IV) Didactic, Including Fables, Descriptive, Narrative, and Pastoral. Adorned with delicately engraved vignettes to the title pages of each divisional book. Rebound in straight grain morocco bindings with gilt detailing. Externally, both volumes have light rubbing to the spines and extremities. Some straining to all the hinges. Internally, both volumes are generally firmly bound and bright, although with some light foxing and offsetting. Good.

Seller Inventory # LTH3-B-12

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elegant Extracts: Being a Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, From the Most Eminent British Poets
• Publisher: John Sharpe, London
• Publication Date: 1820
• Binding: Leather
• Illustrator: None Stated
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry