first edition
1802 · Liverpool
by Shepherd, William, Rev
Liverpool: printed by J. M'Creery for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. First edition, 4to, pp. [4], iv, 487, [1]; engraved vignette title page; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; top of spine chipped away, joints cracking, good and sound. Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459) was an Italian humanist scholar of the Renaissance. His biographer, William Shepherd (1768-1847), was an English abolitionist, educator, dissenting minister, politician, and poet whose interest in Italian literature was stimulated by his friendship with William Roscoe. EB-11 cites the work as "a good authority.
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