INVENTORY #160232
Illustrations of Sterne: with Other Essays and Verses (2 vols. in 1)
FERRIAR, John
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Second edition, with additional matter, of the first serious study of Sterne and his sources. One of the new pieces is the poem "The Bibliomania, an Epistle to Richard Heber, Esq.," first published in a shorter version in 1809. "What wild desires, what restless torments seize/ The hapless man, who feels the book-disease ..."(p. 199).
Publication Info
- Publisher: Printed Cadell and Davies; by J. and J. Haddock, Warrington
- Edition: Second Edition. Originally published 1798
- Date Published: 1812
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: n/a
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- Condition: Near fine
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
193, 222 p. 19 cm. Bound in full leather with gold trim, red and green spine labels, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Light wear only. The tiniest of ink notations on front pastedown verso from 1847.