WHITEHEAD, William (1715-1785). Plays and Poems. London: for J.Dodsley, 1774; with: Poems...vol.III. to which are prefixed Memoirs of his life and writings by W.Mason. York and London: A.Ward for J.Todd, J.Robson and W.Clarke, 1788. Together 3 volumes, 8° (177 x 102mm.). Engraved portrait of the author. Contemporary speckled calf gilt (spines very slightly rubbed). Provenance: George Gilpin (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. - LOFFT, Capel (1751-1824, editor). Laura: or an anthology of sonnets, (on the Petrarcan model,) and elegiac quatuorzains. London: R. & A.Taylor or R.Taylor and Co. for B. and R.Crosby and Co., 1814-13-14. 5 volumes, small 8° (159 x 98mm.). Half-titles. Later calf gilt. FIRST EDITION. - HURDIS, James (1763-1801, Rev.) Poems. Oxford: University Press for J.Parker and Rivington and Longman in London, 1808. 3 volumes, small 8° (155 x 95mm.). (Without ? front blanks). Contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e. by Jacques of Chichester (spines slightly rubbed). Provenance: Charles Day, St.John's, Cambridge (PRESENTATION COPY from the author's mother and sisters, inscribed by the recipient). - With five other works in nine leatherbound volumes, comprising William Lisle Bowles' Sonnets, and other poems, 2 vols., sm.8°, mixed edition, London and Bath, 1805-1801; The Spirit of Discovery; or, the conquest of ocean, sm.8°, Bath and London, 1804; James Hay Beattie's The Minstrel...With some other poems, 2 vols., sm.8°, London, 1799; Richard Cumberland's Calvary; or the death of Christ, 2 vols., sm.8°, new edition, London, 1800; Sir William Jones's The Poetical Works, 2 volumes, 12°, London, 1810. (20)

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WHITEHEAD, William (1715-1785). Plays and Poems. London: for J.Dodsley, 1774; with: Poems...vol.III. to which are prefixed Memoirs of his life and writings by W.Mason. York and London: A.Ward for J.Todd, J.Robson and W.Clarke, 1788. Together 3 volumes, 8° (177 x 102mm.). Engraved portrait of the author. Contemporary speckled calf gilt (spines very slightly rubbed). Provenance: George Gilpin (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. - LOFFT, Capel (1751-1824, editor). Laura: or an anthology of sonnets, (on the Petrarcan model,) and elegiac quatuorzains. London: R. & A.Taylor or R.Taylor and Co. for B. and R.Crosby and Co., 1814-13-14. 5 volumes, small 8° (159 x 98mm.). Half-titles. Later calf gilt. FIRST EDITION. - HURDIS, James (1763-1801, Rev.) Poems. Oxford: University Press for J.Parker and Rivington and Longman in London, 1808. 3 volumes, small 8° (155 x 95mm.). (Without ? front blanks). Contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e. by Jacques of Chichester (spines slightly rubbed). Provenance: Charles Day, St.John's, Cambridge (PRESENTATION COPY from the author's mother and sisters, inscribed by the recipient). - With five other works in nine leatherbound volumes, comprising William Lisle Bowles' Sonnets, and other poems, 2 vols., sm.8°, mixed edition, London and Bath, 1805-1801; The Spirit of Discovery; or, the conquest of ocean, sm.8°, Bath and London, 1804; James Hay Beattie's The Minstrel...With some other poems, 2 vols., sm.8°, London, 1799; Richard Cumberland's Calvary; or the death of Christ, 2 vols., sm.8°, new edition, London, 1800; Sir William Jones's The Poetical Works, 2 volumes, 12°, London, 1810. (20)