The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq., Of the Inner Temple

Cowper, William

Verlag: T. Nelson & Sons, London, 1852

Beschreibung

With extra-engraved title page, plus b&w portrait frontispiece. Illustrated with 6 full-page b&w engraved plates, with printed captions below, complete with tissue guards (1 tissue guard lacking). Small volume. Bound in full red leather, gilt lettering & floral design within compartments to spine, raised bands, elaborate gilt-ruled boards with tooled blind-embossed design, gilt-ruled turn-ins, all edges gilt, green silk-ribbon page-marker, yellow endpapers. Fine binding. "William Cowper (1731-1800), English poet and hymnodist, was one of the most popular poets of his time. Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry." Slight handling wear to covers & spine edges, very slight foxing, toning to plate margins, otherwise a very nice clean bright tight solid leatherbound copy. Beautifully bound. 535pp + Life of William Cowper (xi-xlviii). Uncommon thus. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001156

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq., ...

Verlag: T. Nelson & Sons, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1852

Einband: Leather

Zustand: Near Fine