Item #260254 Two Epistles; One, to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington; The Other, to a Lady. John Gay.

Two Epistles; One, to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington; The Other, to a Lady.

London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, n.d. [1717 or 1720?].

Price: $500.00


About the item

pp. [iii-vi], 7-32 + [4, ads] pp. Lacking A1 (half-title). 1 vols. 8vo. 19th-century brown calf with red leather spine label. Edges a bit rubbed and covers a little bowed. Very good else, with bookplate of Oliver Brett. Foxon G88; Rothschild 913.

Item #260254

The second epistle, first published in 1714, has a separate titlepage reading: “An epistle to a lady, occasion'd by the arrival of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. The fifth edition.” The date is uncertain (v. Rothschild).