sherston peter (2 Ergebnisse)

pp. (iv), iv List of Subscribers, 84. Frontispiece and 2 plates [aquatints by COURBOULD after BARKER]. ? lacks half-title. Paper watermarked 'BE & S Bath 1807'. Later half calf and marbled boards, the covers a little bowed and needing pressing, a cutting from the Bath Herald, Nov.18, 1809, pasted to the verso of the frontispiece announcing the publication of this work, ex-libris Guilldhall Library, Bath, with their book-plate on the front paste-down, now crudely removed, 'Sold' stamp of the Bath Municipal Libraries on title, a little foxing of the tissue guards to the text plates and occasionally in the margins. *COPAC gives three locations - Manchester, Oxford, British Library.

Front., plates. 84pp. WITH: TUCKER, William John. Honiton-Hill, A Poem. Bath: Printed by Meyler & Son. 1812. Half title, 34pp. Contemp. half calf, marbled boards; boards & extremities sl. worn, head of spine chipped, upper hinges starting. Booksellers ticket of 'George Gregory, Bookseller to Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, Bath' on leading pastedown. Copac lists Sherston's work at BL, Oxford, and Manchester only; OCLC adds eight US locations. Honiton-Hill is not in BL nor recorded on Copac; OCLC lists this edition at Torbay Library only, and an 1811 edition at Exeter in the UK and Stanford in the US. A nice volume of two quite scarce regional printings.