IN BOARDS, UNCUT

A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors.

London: Printed for Longmans, Green, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823.

Price: $350.00


About the item

First edition. xliv, 330, [2], [2, ads]pp. 8vo. IN BOARDS, UNCUT. Original drab grey boards, with printed title label, head of spine chipped. Bookplate of William Middleton.

Item #315058

Subscriber's list (p. ix-xliv) includes The King, Duke of York. Alexander Boyd who took 10 copies (as marked in pen), Sir Walter Scott (10 copies), James Watt, et al
This book was published to get money for a widowed friend and her daughters. Includes Sir Walter Scott's "MacDuff's Cross, A Drama." and unpublished works by Byron, Crabbe and Wordworth.