Mason, William
£420
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
Elegies. London: R. Horsfield, 1762. First edition, 4to, half-title; The rise and progress of the present taste in planting parks, pleasure grounds, gardens &c., London: C. Moran, 1767. 4to; Goldsmith, Oliver The traveller... the fifth edition. London: F. Newbery, 1768; Goldsmith, Oliver The deserted village, a poem. the third edition. London: W. Griccin, 1770. 4to, half-title, engraved title vignette; [Gray, Thomas] Ode performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge, July 1, 1769. at the installation of His Grace Augustus-Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, Chancellor of the University. Cambridge: T. & J. Merrill, 1769. 4to, [ESTC T41970], 5 works in one volume, contemporary calf, head of spine rubbed; Gray, Thomas Poems. Glagow: R. and A. Foulis, 1768. 4to, contemporary blue morocco gilt, g.e.; Bellamy, Daniel Ethic amusements. London: for the author, 1768. 4to, engraved plates, contemporary half calf, [ESTC T83830]; Boswell, James James Boswell's book of company at Auchinleck 1782-1795, edited by the Viscountess Eccles & Gordon Turnbull. Roxburghe Club, 1995. Folio, limited to 200 copies, plates, red quarter morocco with buckram sides (4)
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire