1786 · Glasgow
by Parnell, Thomas
Glasgow: printed by Andrew Foulis, printer to the University, 1786. Folio, pp. [2], xii, 388, [4] subscriber list (among whom Edmund Burke and Adam Smith); contemporary full speckled calf, red morocco label on spine, edges stained green; front joint cracked (cords holding), rear joint partially cracked; that said, a nice clean copy. Foulis's handsome folio edition of the poems of Thomas Parnell (1679-1718). Parnell's poems were only first published after his death by Pope in 1721, who prefaced them with a dedicatory poem to the Earl of Oxford, which also appears in this edition. Also with a brief Life of Parnell. Gaskell 681.
(Inventory #: 48667)