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1st edition. 11" x 9". 111pp, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. No Jacket. New Edition. This is a Very Good +/ Near Fine Copy of this book bound in full rich brown leather (calf) with five raised bands to spine with title label to 2nd compartment in red morocco lettered in gilt with further gilt work to each of the other compartments alomng spine.Inner gilt dentelles are present along edges.Plain endpapers.Crucially this copy has it's original half title page and final blank leaf as called for,with 120 pages plus contents page and final blank leaf.New Edition Stated to the Title Page.This work that includes 'Elergy in a Churchyard' and 'an Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' was published in the same year as a First Edition.There are no previous names or inscriptions present,no former bookplates.Usual browning to endpapers,but nothing untoward and the binding is firm with no hinge weakness,very light wear to edges and corners of the outer boards.Handsome copy of this scarce title and certainly recommended buy for any scholar or collector.8vo 120pp + contents + final blank leaf New Edition [1768].