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Poems By Goldsmith And Parnell (Bound with) The Chase
by Goldsmith, Oliver & Thomas Parnell & Somervile, William
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Full dark red morocco, marbled endpapers. Aeg. Near fine in fine matching cloth slipcase
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: W. Bulmer And Co. (Shakespeare Printing Office), 1796. First editions. leather_bound. Full dark red morocco, marbled endpapers. Aeg. Near fine in fine matching cloth slipcase. xx, 76 & xv, 126 pages. Engraved titles with plates and vignettes by John and Thomas Bewick. Laid in are two proof plates from woodblocks by Bewick. The Thomas Whitehead bookplate inside front cover. Parnell volume in four parts each part with its own engraved design page. Parnell, an Anglo-Irish poet and clergyman who was a friend of both Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. Somerville's fame rests chiefly on The Chase, a poem in 4 books, which has some passages of considerable descriptive power; to which Field Sports may be considered a supplement. It contains a vivid description of his favorite pastime and some lively pictures of animal life. Elegantly printed, wide text margins, raised bands, inner dentelles, spine panels lettered in gilt.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24023
- Title
- Poems By Goldsmith And Parnell (Bound with) The Chase
- Author
- Goldsmith, Oliver & Thomas Parnell & Somervile, William
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Full dark red morocco, marbled endpapers. Aeg. Near fine in fine matching cloth slipcase
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First editions
- Publisher
- W. Bulmer And Co. (Shakespeare Printing Office)
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1796
- Keywords
- Book Arts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Prints; Poetry;
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ardsley, New York
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- Morocco
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Bookplate
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- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- Cloth
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Gilt
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