COWPER (William) Poems and The beautifully and appropriately rebacked, coloured lettering pieces, in the antique st FIRST EDITION, good copies, £4 18s

COWPER (William) Poems by William
Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq., 1782,
The Task, a poem in 6 books by William
Cowper, to which are added by the same
Author an epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq., Tir-
cinium, or a Review of Schools, and the
History of John Gilpin, 1785, both vols FIRST
DITIONS, 2 vols, 8vo, original leather bind-
ng, but 2-8ths of an inch cut off top of each
tle, £2 17s 6d
Johnson, 1782-5

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121 COWPER (William) POEMS. J. Johnson, 1782.-THE TASK,' a Poem in Six Books, to which are added, by the same Author, An Epistle to Joseph Hill Esq.; Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools; AND THE HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN, etc. Ib., 1785. FIRST EDITIONS of both volumes, 2 vols, 8vo, old half calf, FINE COPY, £12 12S Рик наз

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Poems, 2 vols, small 8vo,
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BOOK SALES.-At the rooms of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, Wellington-street, Strand, a large sale of books and manuscripts is now in progress, the collection consisting of works from various libraries. The first portion, formerly belonging to the late Mr. Robert Charles' May, included a series of the original editions of Dickens and "Dickensiana," uniformly bound in calf-nearly forty volumes. These were offered as one lot under a conditional reserve price, namely, the sum paid by Mr. May, 1107.; but on this occasion they reached 1627. Other interesting lots were the English Dance of Death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with metrical illustrations, by the author of "Docter Syntax," 2 vols., original edition and unique copy; and Dance of Life with coloured plates- 301.; Ruskin's Modern Painters 5 vols., first edition of Vols. IlI., IV., and V.-217. ; D. Roberts's Holy Land, Syria, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, with descriptions by Dr. Croly and W. Brockedon, with 250 plates-531.; a rare copy of Bewick's Birds, in green morocco, 451.; Byron's Hours of Idleness, first edition, 10%. 5s.; Odes, by William Collins, 1747, first edition, 107. 12s. 6d. ; Cowper's Poems, first edition (published by J. Johnson, 1782), of which it is believed only three or four copies exist, 107. 5s.; Le Temple de Guide of Montesquieu, the text engraved throughout by Drouet, with brilliant impressions of the engravings by Le Mire, after designs by Eisen, Paris, 1772, rare state, 22. 10s.; Les Metamorphoses Ovide, first edition, 271. 10s. Daily haws 4 mg 1891

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