COWPER, William

The Minor Poems of William Cowper of the Inner Temple [In Two Parts bound together]

London: John Sharpe, Picadilly, 1818. Richard Westall illustrations. First Thus. Leatherbound. 16mo. Two parts bound together pp. vi, [7-]108; iv, [5-] 108. Frontis. engraved illustration each part with five additional Westall plates published 1 October 1817. Printed by C. Whittingham, Chiswick. Expertly repaired full calf with tooled gilt borders and turn-ins, gilt titles on a morocco lettering-piece and decorations embossed on the spine, all edges gilt, brown endpapers. Previous owner's ink signature on the half-title, Henry Prior London bookseller tag on the front pastedown. Corners bumped and rubbed through, foxing to plates with transfer to adjacent leaves, slight misalignment of signatures though the binding is tight. Good+. Item #7517

The popular poet of the English countryside, daily life, and an abolitionist, greatly admired by Coleridge and Wordsworth. With fine illustrations: "To Mary," "On His Mother's Picture," "The Rose," "Alexander Selkirk," "The Negro's Complaint," "The Dog and the Water Lilly," "The Lily and the Rose." Includes Cowper's translations from the Latin of twenty-one Vincent Bourne poems and a selection of hymns, stanzas, inscriptions and epitaphs.

Price: $100.00