An Essay on Painting: In two epistles to Mr. Romney. The Third Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.
[Together with:] Hayley, William. An Essay on History; In three epistles to Edward Gibbon, Esq. With notes. The Second Edition.
1781 · London:
by Hayley, William
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1781 [Together with:] Hayley, William. An Essay on History; In three epistles to Edward Gibbon, Esq. With notes. The Second Edition. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1781. Quarto. [4], 168 pp. Bound together in full contemporary polished calf, gilt-decorated spine with red morocco label. Quarto. Front hinge neatly repaired, neat marginal between half-title and title of the first work. A little light foxing in the second work, eighteenth- and twentieth-century ownership signatures on a preliminary blank. A very good, attractive copy. Two essays by William Hayley (1745-1820), the poet and friend of Cowper, Romney and Southey, best known for his Triumphs of Temper. (Inventory #: 7616)