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[EDWARDS OF HALIFAX, bindery]. -- COWPER, William (1731-1800). Poems. London: for J. Johnson, 1788.
2 volumes in one, 8o (192 x 113 mm). (Some light browning and spotting.) Contemporary vellum, covers with a gilt pentaglyph and metope roll border on a blue wash background enclosing a braod inner border of repeated gilt swags composed of facing cornucopiae with ribbon ornament, smooth spine with gilt-lettered panel on a blue wash background, gilt-tooled with a lattice pattern, a gilt roll of pentaglyph and metope on a blue background at head and foot, edges gilt concealing a CONTEMPORARY FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF AN ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE (covers lightly soiled; some loss to blue on spine); modern quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Estelle Doheny (bookplate; her sale Christie's Camarillo California, 1 February 1988; lot 612).
Fourth edition. Weber I, p.138.
2 volumes in one, 8o (192 x 113 mm). (Some light browning and spotting.) Contemporary vellum, covers with a gilt pentaglyph and metope roll border on a blue wash background enclosing a braod inner border of repeated gilt swags composed of facing cornucopiae with ribbon ornament, smooth spine with gilt-lettered panel on a blue wash background, gilt-tooled with a lattice pattern, a gilt roll of pentaglyph and metope on a blue background at head and foot, edges gilt concealing a CONTEMPORARY FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF AN ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE (covers lightly soiled; some loss to blue on spine); modern quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Estelle Doheny (bookplate; her sale Christie's Camarillo California, 1 February 1988; lot 612).
Fourth edition. Weber I, p.138.