The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, Esq; Most of which were never before printed.
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1764-1769.
Price: $400.00
About the item
First edition. With portrait frontispiece, folding map of Lesasowes in Salop, title page vignettes, several headpiece illustrations and other decorations. viii, 345, [7]; vi, 392; xvi, 399 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine decorations, green and red leather labels on spine, . Hinges are slightly rubbed, one head slightly chipped, else fine. A very nice copy with original labels, Bookplate of Dean Palmer and signature of Elizabeth Blanche Burton. Rothschild 1840 (second edition only); Tinker 1911; Williams pp.60-63.
Item #221599
Works of poet and noted landscape theorist of the picturesque.
