Shenstone, William
£400
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 10 September 2014 at 12:00 BST
Description
The works in verse and prose. London: for J. Dodsley, 1777. Mixed edition, volumes 1 and 2 fifth edition, volume 3 a new edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispieces and large engraved vignettes on the titles of volumes 1 and 2, other engraved vignettes and tailpieces, folding plan in volume 2, contemporary sprinkled calf, black and green morocco lettering pieces, spines and edges rubbed; A Collection of poems by several hands. London: Dodsley, 1775. 6 volumes, 8vo, engraved vignettes and plates contemporary calf, spines decorated gilt in compartments, red and green morocco lettering pieces, spines and edges rubbed, with the armorial bookplate of Oliphant of Rossie; Hall-Stevenson, John The works. London: Nicholas, 1795. 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispieces to volumes 1 and 2, contemporary sprinkled calf, spines decorated gilt, red and black morocco lettering pieces, heads, tails and joints rubbed, endpapers renewed; [Wilkie, William] The Epigoniad: a poem in nine books. Edinburgh: Hamilton, Balfour, & Neill, 1757. First edition, 8vo, 19th century light tan calf; Stevens, George Alexander A lecture on heads ... to which is added an essay on satire. [bound with] Songs comic and satirical. London: Kearsley, 1788. 2 works in one volume, 12mo., fldg. engraved frontispiece to the first work, contemporary sheep; Rowley, Thomas, et al. Poems supposed to have been written at Bristol in the fifteenth century. Cambridge: by B. Flower, 1794. 8vo, engraved title-page, contemporary tree calf, spine decorated gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering piece; and 11 others