first edition Full Straight-Grained Morocco
1796 · London
by Burges, Sir James Bland
London: T. Egerton. Printed by C. Roworth, 1796. First edition. Full Straight-Grained Morocco. Near Fine. 4to. 28.5 by 22.5 cm. ii, [5], 58 pp. With 24 hand-colored engraved plates of Cupid wielding a bow and arrow of love. (This book usually doesn't have its plates colored.) A lovely copy, with its nineteenth century full red straight-grained morocco with gilt turn-ins, etc. Occasional light foxing -- a few pages with denser foxing, but still light. With a small armorial bookplate mounted onto marbled endpaper.
(Inventory #: 006010)