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ONLY EDITION of this volume of verse by James Wallace (1766-1829). In keeping with the frontispiece, which shows students with rackets and another with bat and stumps, the first poem is "Adieu to Harrow".
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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. 8vo., 6 numbered engraved plates including frontispiece of Harrow School by B. Reading after J. Cruikshank, with half-title, errata leaf and leaf of directions to the binder (slight paper adhesion from frontispiece onto title), UNCUT in contemporary boards (old rebacking in cloth, some wear to covers). 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. 8vo., 6 numbered engraved plates including frontispiece of Harrow School by B. Reading after J. Cruikshank, with half-title, errata leaf and leaf of directions to the binder (slight paper adhesion from frontispiece onto title), UNCUT in contemporary boards (old rebacking in cloth, some wear to covers). Padwick 1483.
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