The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on their Works, 4 volumes, 1st separate edition, printed for C. Bathurst et al, 1781, engraved portrait frontispiece after Joshua Reynolds (spotted), volume 3 with terminal blank present, volume 4 without advertisements, intermittent light spotting and toning to text, first volume with bookplate of Richard Adams on front free endpaper, contemporary bookplate with crest and motto 'Animum Rege' on front pastedowns, volume 1 with manuscript ownership signature dated 1830 on front free endpaper, contemporary green half morocco, rubbed, and extremities a trifle worn in places, spine divided by gilt metope and pentaglyph rolls, oval red leather labels in second and fourth compartments, remainder with alternating gilt urn and urn within foliate frame tools, 8vo Rothschild 1265. Tinker 1365. (4)
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on their Works, 4 volumes, 1st separate edition, printed for C. Bathurst et al, 1781, engraved portrait frontispiece after Joshua Reynolds (spotted), volume 3 with terminal blank present, volume 4 without advertisements, intermittent light spotting and toning to text, first volume with bookplate of Richard Adams on front free endpaper, contemporary bookplate with crest and motto 'Animum Rege' on front pastedowns, volume 1 with manuscript ownership signature dated 1830 on front free endpaper, contemporary green half morocco, rubbed, and extremities a trifle worn in places, spine divided by gilt metope and pentaglyph rolls, oval red leather labels in second and fourth compartments, remainder with alternating gilt urn and urn within foliate frame tools, 8vo Rothschild 1265. Tinker 1365. (4)
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