[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. McCREERY, John. The Press, a Poem. Published as a Specimen of Typography. Liverpool, 1803. - GOLDSMITH, Oliver, and PARNELL, Thomas. Poems. London, 1795. Illustrated by Thomas Bewick and John Bewick. - CAMPBELL, Thomas. The pleasures of Hopes: with other Poems. London, 1803. - Gertrude of Wyoming. London, 1809.
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[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. McCREERY, John. The Press, a Poem. Published as a Specimen of Typography. Liverpool, 1803. - GOLDSMITH, Oliver, and PARNELL, Thomas. Poems. London, 1795. Illustrated by Thomas Bewick and John Bewick. - CAMPBELL, Thomas. The pleasures of Hopes: with other Poems. London, 1803. - Gertrude of Wyoming. London, 1809.

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[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. McCREERY, John. The Press, a Poem. Published as a Specimen of Typography. Liverpool, 1803. - GOLDSMITH, Oliver, and PARNELL, Thomas. Poems. London, 1795. Illustrated by Thomas Bewick and John Bewick. - CAMPBELL, Thomas. The pleasures of Hopes: with other Poems. London, 1803. - Gertrude of Wyoming. London, 1809.

4 works in one volume, 4o (274 x 225 mm). Contemporary red straight grained morocco elaborately tooled in blind and gilt, by Frye of Halifax, gilt edges with a DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING of Auburn, the deserted Village and Killarney, the old Weir Bridge.

An interesting volume of fine printing, engraving and binding. The first work is a PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to W. Shepherd on front fly leaf: "Rev. W. Shepherd, with the Author's warmest Remembrances." See Bigmore & Wyman II, 1-3.

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