INVENTORY #118221
A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes by Several Hands with Notes. Volumes I, IV, V, and VI.
TICKELL, Thomas, et al
Regular price
$150.00
Sale
Vol. 1 is from a 1782 printing. Vols. 4, 5, and 6 are from an earlier printing in 1770. The 4 volumes available in this offer include poems by a variety of well known 18th century British poets, including: Thomas Tickell's "On the Prospect of Peace"; Cobb's "The Female Reign: An Ode"; Lady Mary Wortley Montague's "Six Town Ecologues"; Alexander Pope's "The Bassette-Table"; Gray's "An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard"; Samuel Johnson's "The Vanity of Human Wishes"; Henry Fielding's "A Letter to Sir Robert Walpole"; Dr. Ibbot's "A Fit of the Spleen"; Alsop's "Dialogue to Chlorinda"; and William Whitehead's "Ode to the Tiber."
Publication Info
- Publisher: J. Dodsley in Pall Mall
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1782, 1770
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Very good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
Vols. 1, 4, 5 & 6 ONLY (missing vols. 2 &3 for complete set). 368p; 360p; 336p; 336p. 18 cm full leather binding with red and gilt labels on spine. Ex-library with bookplates and labels affixed to front endpapers. Front board nearly detached from vol. 1. Leather also stained with a blackened spine on vol. 1. Leather in much cleaner condition on other three volumes with intact bindings. Some browning to endpapers and title pages. Pages clean. Text unmarked. Sold "as-is."