Akenside, Mark

The Poems

London By W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, and sold by J. Dodsley 1772 First Collected Edition. [check]. 8vo. xii, 402 pp. Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, the spine divided into six panels, lettered in the second on a blue goatskin label, the others elaborately gilt tooled with a "trophy" composed of a lyre, crossed burins and a face-in-the-sun, with foliage in the corners, plain endleaves, pale yellow edges. (Upper headcap chipped, joints a little rubbed). A fine copy. [booskeller's note: first collected edition, with much material here first published by Akenside's literary executor Dyson].

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• ordernr.: ebc784

• bookseller: George Bayntun (GREAT BRITAIN)