Item #48909 Poems and translations, with the Sophy, a tragedy. John Denham.
Poems and translations, with the Sophy, a tragedy

Poems and translations, with the Sophy, a tragedy

Glasgow: printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1771. 12mo, pp. [8], 240, [4]; contemporary tan calf, gilt decorated spine in 5 compartments; spine label perished but impression readable, joints and spine rubbed, 1857 signature on free endpaper; good. The first poem of the collection, Cooper's Hill, is the "first example in English of a poem devoted to local description." (Cousin, Biographical Dictionary). Gaskell 524. Item #48909

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