Fuseli (Henry). Sorrows. Sacred to the Memory of Penelope, 1st edition, large paper copy, London: W. Bulmer and Co, 1796, frontispiece, 2 plates, illustrations to text, light spotting (mostly marginal), contemporary manuscript leaves tipped-in, manuscript annotations to verso of frontispiece & front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscription & later pen markings to title, hinges cracked, contemporary half calf over cloth boards, joints worn & cracked to edges, boards worn & marked, backstrip worn with loss, lacking title label, folio (Qty: 1) A scarce example of the large paper copy. Famous for its frontispiece after Fuseli, the portrait of Penelope is after Joshua Reynolds
Fuseli (Henry). Sorrows. Sacred to the Memory of Penelope, 1st edition, large paper copy, London: W. Bulmer and Co, 1796, frontispiece, 2 plates, illustrations to text, light spotting (mostly marginal), contemporary manuscript leaves tipped-in, manuscript annotations to verso of frontispiece & front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscription & later pen markings to title, hinges cracked, contemporary half calf over cloth boards, joints worn & cracked to edges, boards worn & marked, backstrip worn with loss, lacking title label, folio (Qty: 1) A scarce example of the large paper copy. Famous for its frontispiece after Fuseli, the portrait of Penelope is after Joshua Reynolds
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