Title: Specimens of the Early English Poets Author: [Ellis, George, compiler] Place: London Publisher: Printed for Edwards, Pall-Mall Date: 1790 Description: [2], [viii], 323 pp. (8vo) 18.5x11.5 cm. (7¼x4½") period full vellum (in the style of and likely by Edwards of Halifax), spine gilt, boards with gilt borders over a green wash border, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, calf backed clamshell box. With a fore edge painting (also likely by the Edwards firm) of a pastoral scene of an English estate with a lake and drive in the foreground. Provenance: Sotheby's sale number 4056, Nov. 15, 1977 (identifying the fore edge scene as Woburn Abbey). Bookplate of John Levien. Lot Amendments Condition: Box split at joints; vellum soiled; very good. Item number: 223970
Title: Specimens of the Early English Poets Author: [Ellis, George, compiler] Place: London Publisher: Printed for Edwards, Pall-Mall Date: 1790 Description: [2], [viii], 323 pp. (8vo) 18.5x11.5 cm. (7¼x4½") period full vellum (in the style of and likely by Edwards of Halifax), spine gilt, boards with gilt borders over a green wash border, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, calf backed clamshell box. With a fore edge painting (also likely by the Edwards firm) of a pastoral scene of an English estate with a lake and drive in the foreground. Provenance: Sotheby's sale number 4056, Nov. 15, 1977 (identifying the fore edge scene as Woburn Abbey). Bookplate of John Levien. Lot Amendments Condition: Box split at joints; vellum soiled; very good. Item number: 223970
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