Description:
4to., pp. [4], 163, [1, blank]; a very good copy in nineteenth-century half calf with marbled boards, spine gilt, rubbed; joints cracked; cords sound, some insect damage to rear cover; bookplate sometime removed from front pastedown; ownership inscription of Robert Southey to title page dated 'Keswick 1820', and 11-line note in his hand to front flyleaf; sold at the sale of his library, Sotheby's 18th May 1844, lot 2340, £1 11s; with a note by the purchaser; contemporary ownership inscription of John Mason to final blank page. First edition, from the library of Robert Southey, with an ownership inscription an eleven-line note in his distinctive diminutive hand.
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