Poems for Young Ladies. In Three Parts. Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining . .
by [GOLDSMITH, OLIVER, COMPILER]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Endpapers browned and slightly chipped at the edges from the leather turn-ins; very good copy.
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed for J. Payne, 1767, 1767. First edition. Scott, pages 197-98; Tinker 1115; Rothschild 1029. Endpapers browned and slightly chipped at the edges from the leather turn-ins; very good copy.. Small 8vo, contemporary calf rebacked, brown leather label, gilt lettering. Frontispiece engraved by Charles Grignion. An anthology of mostly 18th century poems deemed suitable for ladies, anonymously compiled and with an introduction by Oliver Goldsmith. Included are works by Pope, Addison, Moore, Parnell, Thomson, Dryden, Swift, Collins, Gay and Goldsmith himself. - but none by ladies!
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- Bookseller
- The Brick Row Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27848
- Title
- Poems for Young Ladies. In Three Parts. Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining . .
- Author
- [GOLDSMITH, OLIVER, COMPILER]
- Format/Binding
- Scott, pages 197-98; Tinker 1115; Rothschild 1029
- Book Condition
- Used - Endpapers browned and slightly chipped at the edges from the leather turn-ins; very good copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed for J. Payne, 1767
- Date Published
- 1767
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The Brick Row Book Shop
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About The Brick Row Book Shop
The Brick Row Book Shop, founded in 1915, is one of the oldest antiquarian book firms in the United States. We're located a block from Union Square in downtown San Francisco, and are open by appointment Monday-Friday. The engraving by T. Diedricksen is of the Shop as it was shortly after its founding in New Haven, Connecticut.
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- Calf
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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