The three Wartons: a choice of their verse. Edited with a note and a select bibliography by Eric Partridge
first edition
1927 · London
by Warton, Thomas the Elder, Joseph Warton, & Thomas Warton the Younger
London: The Scholartis Press, 1927. First edition, this one of 550 copies of the "ordinary" edition on Glastonbury paper; there were also 150 copies on Batchelor's Kelmscott paper; 8vo, pp. 192; brown cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine label; label browned, top edge of covers bumped, very good. A presentation copy by the editor, Partridge, to Ifor Evans, who served as Provost at University College London, with his inscription on flyleaf. Laid in is a 3-page autograph letter from Partridge to Evans, presenting him with this book, thanking him for his criticism and defending his credentials as a writer on language: "Nine years intensive work in language, on top of more than twenty years interest with, must leave something - must have some effect on anyone but a nitwit or a moron." This is the second Scholartis Press book and the first printed at the Oxford University Press. (Inventory #: 52282)