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POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). Ethic Epistles, Satires, &c. With the author's notes. London [i.e. The Hague: T. Johnson]: printed for the company, 1735. (Lacks final errata leaf.) [Bound with:] Torquato TASSO (1544-1595). L'Aminta ... second edition. Oxford: L. Lichfield for James Fletcher and sold by Charles Rivington, 1731. 2 works in one volume, 8° (161 x 91mm). Contemporary calf (rebacked in morocco). Provenance: Thomas Green (signature on title to the first work; copious marginalia in [?]his and other early hands to the first work and on endpapers) -- purchased from Pickering and Chatto, 28 October 1947, £3. Griffith 391.
GRAY, Thomas (1716-1771). Odes. Strawberry-Hill: for R. and J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, 1757. 4° (249 x 193mm). Half-title. Engraved title vignette. Late 19th-century half calf. Provenance: marginal glosses in an unidentified contemporary hand on pp. 5-7, 14-16, and 18 -- Mary Bryant Sprague (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED AT THE STRAWBERRY-HILL PRESS, with interesting cross-references by a contemporary reader to Pope, Thompson, Milton and Shakespeare. Hazen Strawberry-Hill Press 1. (2)
GRAY, Thomas (1716-1771). Odes. Strawberry-Hill: for R. and J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, 1757. 4° (249 x 193mm). Half-title. Engraved title vignette. Late 19th-century half calf. Provenance: marginal glosses in an unidentified contemporary hand on pp. 5-7, 14-16, and 18 -- Mary Bryant Sprague (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED AT THE STRAWBERRY-HILL PRESS, with interesting cross-references by a contemporary reader to Pope, Thompson, Milton and Shakespeare. Hazen Strawberry-Hill Press 1. (2)
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