The Poetical Works of William Cowper. Complete Edition, With Memoir, Explanatory Notes &c. Portrait and Original Illustrations. ?The Lansdowne Poets.?

COWPER, WILLIAM: GRIMSHAWE, Rev. T. S.:

Published by London, Frederick Warne and Co. n.d. ca1887

About this Item

Hardback, approx 7 x 5 inches. In dark green/black full morocco leather fine binding, gilt lettering and raised banding to spine. Embossed panel decoration to boards. Gilt dentelles. Full gilt page edges. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Some rubbing to raised bands on spine, and some slight rubbing to rear edge. Neat inscription to front endpaper dated 1887. Some minor foxing to prelims, else inside pages all very clean and tight. Some minor faint water staining to edges of plates. Else a very good clean and tight copy. xxviii + 611pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontis portrait and full-page B&W plates. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Poetical Works of William Cowper. Complete Edition, With Memoir, Explanatory Notes &c. Portrait and Original Illustrations. ?The Lansdowne Poets.?
• Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co. n.d. ca1887
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