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COWPER, William.

The Poetical Works of William Cowper Esq.

The Poetical Works of William Cowper Esq.

and a memoir of the author. Illustrated with a portrait and twenty other splendid engravings on steel by G. Standfast.

Stock Code 120881

London, Charles Daly, [c.1850].

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The poetical works of William Cowper in a striking contemporary binding of green morocco tooled in gilt and blind to a diagonal effect.

8vo (16.5 x 10.5 cm); 21 steel-engraved plates including portrait frontispiece, engraved additional title, ownership inscription in pen to front free endpaper recto, bookplate to front pastedown, plates slightly soiled; contemporary pebble-grain green morocco, covers with diagonal lines tooled in gilt and blind within ornamental gilt frame, gilt spine in 6 compartments, all edges gilt, minor wear, very good.

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