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Sale 475: Fine Literature & Fine Books in All Fields (#475) 03/15/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #279Specimens of the Early English Poets

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Sale 475: Fine Literature & Fine Books in All Fields (#475) 03/15/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Description

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zzf(Fore Edge Painting)

Title:

Specimens of the Early English Poets

Author:

[Ellis, George, compiler]

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

Printed for Edwards, Pall-Mall

Date Published:

1790

Description:

[2], [viii], 323 pp. (8vo) 18.5x11.5 cm. (7¼x4½") period full vellum (in the style of and likely by Edwards of Halifax), spine gilt, boards with gilt borders over a green wash border, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, calf backed clamshell box.

With a fore edge painting (also likely by the Edwards firm) of a pastoral scene of an English estate with a lake and drive in the foreground. Provenance: Sotheby's sale number 4056, Nov. 15, 1977 (identifying the fore edge scene as Woburn Abbey). Bookplate of John Levien.

Condition:

Box split at joints; vellum soiled; very good.

Item#:

223970

Headline:

Specimens of the Early English Poets 1790
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