[On Chatterton]

Cottle, Joseph (1770-1853)

1829, Fourth Edition. London : T. Cadell. Very good custom binding of matter from "Malvern Hills : with minor poems and essays. Vol. 1" in later gilt-blocked brown cloth boards, with related ephemera loosely inserted. Frontispiece lightly foxed and retaining its tissue-guard, with the interior tight, bright and clean on the whole, showing only sparse, faint dust-dulling or foxing. A well-preserved example overall. Item #465444

Physical description; [2] hand-mounted plates (the latter in colour), 1-8,169-170, 155-156, 383-432 pages, [6] plates, [3] blanks : illustrations, portrait ; 19 cm. Notes; Spine title. Title pages for "Malvern Hills : with minor poems and essays" and also for "Volume the First" with the vol. 1 frontispiece. Contents; Malvern Hills. Severn. Epitaph. Bristol, Newgate, where Savage died. On Chatterton, and the Rowleian controversy. Subjects; Malvern Hills. Poetry. Essays. English literature. 19th century. Landscape. Worcestershire. Herefordshire. Nature poetry. Romantic. Illustrated. Portrait.

Price: €125.00