Full Leather
1774 · London | Oxford
by John Gilbert Cooper (Aristippus); Thomas Gray; Mark Akenside; Lady Elizabeth Wardlaw; William King; Thomas Warton; Robert Nugent; Paul Whitehead (Juvenal and Persius)
London | Oxford: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley | Typographeo Clarendoniano | C. Corbett | apud J. Clarke & W. Owen, apud J. Fletcher & S. Parker, 1774. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Ten specimens of British poetry, almost all First Editions, bound together in one volume. Tenth Edition of Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. The First Edition thus, edited by Moncrief, of Lady Elizabeth Wardlaw's Hardyknute, which appeared previously in shorter Scottish editions, without notes. All other works are First Editions, and all works collate complete. Paul Whitehead's satire of Walpole, The State of Rome under Nero and Domitian, and Thomas Gray's Odes [1757]. Also with John Gilbert Cooper's Epistles to the Great, and The Call of Aristippus; Mark Akenside's Ode to the Country Gentlemen of England; William King's Oratio in Theatro Sheldoniano; Thomas Warton's Mons Catharinae, Prope Wintoniam; Robert Nugent's Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole. Most of the collection were published by Robert Dodsley, an eminent bookseller, talented author in his own right, and "martyr in the fight for a free British press" (Solomon p. 88). Some trimming to the Epistle to Walpole, and the Folio sized leaves of The State of Rome are slightly and neatly cut near the gutter and folded to size. Bookplate of Walter Bagot, and 'Egerton Bagot' written in ink on the front pastedown; Rev. Walter Bagot was a friend of the poet William Cowper. Holograph list of works on the front endpaper, by a contemporary hand. Late 18th century vellum with decorative gilt borders, and faded title in ink on the spine. (ESTC T32883; T4714; T42023; T71260; T129421; T36010; T135699; N4802; T32871; T48587. Foxon W215; E426; S725. NCBEL II, 1978, 575, 637, 555, 690. DNB IV, 1071. Harry M. Solomon The Rise of Robert Dodsley. ). Very Good binding.
(Inventory #: 286511)