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Author Name James Thomson Title THE POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES THOMSON With the Life of the Author (Complete in 2 Vols) Binding Leather hardbound Book Condition Very Good with no dust jacket Edition 1st Thus Publisher Edinburgh, Scotland Apollo Press 1787 Seller ID 15882 POETRY; English Poetry; 18th Century; 18th Century English Poetry; Leather Bound; Engravings; We fit archival quality clear acrylic covers for additional protection whenever possible. ; Bell's Edition, the Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill; Engraved; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; Leather full tan calf bound hard cover edition with silk marker ribbon, six compartment spine, blank creme colored end papers, covers bordered in gilt, gilding on spine is dulled. There were about 60 of these published over the aproximate years of 1776 to 1888. They averaged about 200 pages in length. This is NOT the Elibron Classics reprint but the original leather bound 18th century issue. They had an engraved frontis and some had other plates as well . Clean throughout with no writing. Although rarely described, in all of these Apollo volumes, the glue used in binding has darkened the edges of the covers and offset to the edges of the first blank endpaper. Front cover of vol I is detached.
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