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RITSON, Joseph (1752-1803, editor). The English Anthology. London: C. Clarke for T. and J. Egerton, 1793-94.
3 volumes, 8o (190 x 123 mm). Half-titles, errata leaf at end of volume one, additional leaf of corrections and one-page publisher's advertisement at end of vol. III. Engraved title vignettes, engraved and woodcut head- and tail-pieces by Stothard. (Some light offsetting and occasional pale spotting, a few minor marginal repairs.) FIRST EDITION. Lowndes V, p.2098.
[With:]
RITSON, Joseph. Fairy Tales, Now First Collected: To Which are Prefixed Two Dissertations: 1. On Pygmies. 2. On Fairies. London: Thomas Davison for Payne and Foss and William Pickering, 1831.
8o (188 x 120 mm). Half-title. FIRST EDITION. Keynes William Pickering, p.87.
Together 4 volumes. Uniformly bound in 19th-century red morocco gilt, gilt arms on covers, top edges gilt, others uncut, by F. Bedford. Provenance: purchased through Seven Gables Bookshop, Swann Galleries, New York, 18 November 1971.
Ritson calls his anthology: "A selection of English poetry, in a chronological series, from the beginning of the sixteenth century (or, including an extract from Chaucer, from the latter part of the fourteenth) to the present time, upon a plan hitherto unattempted, at least in this country." A FINE SET. (4)
3 volumes, 8o (190 x 123 mm). Half-titles, errata leaf at end of volume one, additional leaf of corrections and one-page publisher's advertisement at end of vol. III. Engraved title vignettes, engraved and woodcut head- and tail-pieces by Stothard. (Some light offsetting and occasional pale spotting, a few minor marginal repairs.) FIRST EDITION. Lowndes V, p.2098.
[With:]
RITSON, Joseph. Fairy Tales, Now First Collected: To Which are Prefixed Two Dissertations: 1. On Pygmies. 2. On Fairies. London: Thomas Davison for Payne and Foss and William Pickering, 1831.
8o (188 x 120 mm). Half-title. FIRST EDITION. Keynes William Pickering, p.87.
Together 4 volumes. Uniformly bound in 19th-century red morocco gilt, gilt arms on covers, top edges gilt, others uncut, by F. Bedford. Provenance: purchased through Seven Gables Bookshop, Swann Galleries, New York, 18 November 1971.
Ritson calls his anthology: "A selection of English poetry, in a chronological series, from the beginning of the sixteenth century (or, including an extract from Chaucer, from the latter part of the fourteenth) to the present time, upon a plan hitherto unattempted, at least in this country." A FINE SET. (4)