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[JAMES WALLACE]
Savillon's Elegies; or, Poems written by a gentleman, A.B. late of the University of Cambridge
London: T. Rickaby for Hookham and Carpenter, 1795. 8° (7¾ x 4¾in; 194 x 120mm), 6 numbered engraved plates including frontispiece of Harrow School by B. Reading after I. Cruikshank, with half-title, errata leaf and leaf of directions to the binder (light spotting to plate margins), original blue boards, UNCUT AND LARGELY UNOPENED (rebacked in paper), green cloth case. Provenance: "A matchless copy, with fine impressions of the plates" (pencil inscription signed "H.G.") -- J.W. Goldman (pasted over-bookplate; sold Hodgson's, 24 November 1966, lot 49 to Baxter for £13).
ONLY EDITION of this volume of verse by James Wallace (1766-1829). In keeping with the frontispiece, which shows some boys with rackets and another with bat and stumps, the first poem is "Adieu to Harrow." FINE COPY. Padwick 1483.
Savillon's Elegies; or, Poems written by a gentleman, A.B. late of the University of Cambridge
London: T. Rickaby for Hookham and Carpenter, 1795. 8° (7¾ x 4¾in; 194 x 120mm), 6 numbered engraved plates including frontispiece of Harrow School by B. Reading after I. Cruikshank, with half-title, errata leaf and leaf of directions to the binder (light spotting to plate margins), original blue boards, UNCUT AND LARGELY UNOPENED (rebacked in paper), green cloth case. Provenance: "A matchless copy, with fine impressions of the plates" (pencil inscription signed "H.G.") -- J.W. Goldman (pasted over-bookplate; sold Hodgson's, 24 November 1966, lot 49 to Baxter for £13).
ONLY EDITION of this volume of verse by James Wallace (1766-1829). In keeping with the frontispiece, which shows some boys with rackets and another with bat and stumps, the first poem is "Adieu to Harrow." FINE COPY. Padwick 1483.
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