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Verlag: London: Chatto and Windus, 1875, 1875
Anbieter: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Vereinigtes Königreich
[Poetry] FINELY-BOUND COPY. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxiv; 516; [2]. With eighteen steel engravings, including a frontispiece, after William Harvey. Red full morocco. Tooling in both blind and gilt to boards. Gilt titles, further gilt decoration, and raised bands to spine. Turn-ins gilt ruled. Bevelled edges. Serpentine marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Bound by John Ramage (1836-1911). Interior bright and clean, slight spotting here and there. Ownership inscription in black ink to preliminary leaf dating to 1876. Spotting to fore edge. Rubbing and wear to spine, joints, and binding extremities. Very good indeed. Includes a biographical sketch of Cowper's life written by priest and scholar H.F. Cary. Also includes Cowper's translation of Homer, parts of which are a direct challenge to Alexander Pope's earlier translations.
Verlag: London : Henry Bohn, 1864
Anbieter: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, Vereinigtes Königreich
Later edition, handsomely rebound in dark blue half calf over pink marbled boards; marbled page edges. Royal 8vo (245 mm); xiv, 516 p; with an engraved portrait frontispiece, an extra illustrated titlepage (depicting Cowper's Summer House at Olney), 16 plates, all hand-coloured and engraved on steel, after designs by WM. Harvey. A handsome copy, greatly enhanced by the tenderly coloured illustrations. William Cowper (26 November 1731 25 April 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist. Book.