Select Epigrams Two Volumes (2 results)
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Published by Sampson Low, No 7, Berwick Street, Soho 1797
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, , United KingdomHugh Hardinge Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Good
US$ 102.02
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Full-Leather. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Shelf wear to brown leather boards.the four front corners rubbed bare; book has a relitavely new leather spine with five raised bands and a a maroon label lettered in gilt. Internally clean endpapers (replaced); half title soiled, the title page less so; remaining contents clean and ti…ght. Pp (xviii) + 158, (iv), 192. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by Sampson, Low, London 1797
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus)
Contact seller5-star sellerTwo volumes, octavos, original deep green flame calf gilt, rubbed, scuffed, newly rebacked, contemporary armorial Adams-style bookplate of Michael Joy, printed in green as noted by the Franks Catalogue (#16757), minor dust soiling, slight age tanning, good. The poets cited are an interesting mixture including Browne, Cleveland,…Cowper, Donne (four epigrams of which we locate but one mentioned by Keynes as existing in two manuscript versions only; the three other epigrams are not in Keynes), Dryden, Garrick, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson (three pages), Pope (six pages) and Swift (six pages), among others. NCBEL II, 424. The first and apparently sole edition. Rare.
