VERY GOOD COPY IN MOTTLED BLACK BOARDS PAPER LABLE WITH SOME WEAR AROUND THE EDGES. LIMITED TO 850 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 162. NAME OF FIONA MACCARTHY (AUTHOR) AND DATE ON FEP. POEMS FROM POEMS OLOR ISCANUS SILEX SCINTILLANS THALIA REDIVIVA. AN ESSAY FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. TWO LETTERS FROM MSS. IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY.
CHOSEN AND INTRODUCED BY GWYN JONES. DRAWINGS IN FULL COLOUR AND BLACK AND WHITE BY LAVINIA BLYTHE. ONE OF 500 COPIES DESIGNED AND PUBLISHED BY CHRISTOPHER SANDFORD THIS BEING NUMBER 153. FOLIO BOUND IN QUARTER LEATHER OVER GREY CLOTH. A VERY NICE COPY FROM NEWCASTLE LIBRARY WITH A STAMP ON THE REVERSE OF THE TITLE PAGE AN ACCESSION NUMBER ON THE SPINE AND THE SMALL REMAINS OF A LABLE ON THE FEP.
FIRST EDITION VERY NICE COPY IN ORIGINAL BURGUNDY CLOTH BEVELLED BOARDS ELABORATE GILT DESIGN TO FRONT BOARD TOP EDGES GILT. PROTECTIVE SLEEVE. ILLUS. BY HUGH THOMSON.
MIXED EDITION. VOLUME ONE IS 1793 AND VOLUME TWO IS 1796 (FOURTH EDITION). VOLUME ONE CONTAINS THE ECONOMY OF VEGETATION AND VOLUME TWO THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS. BOUND IN FULL-TREE CALF HINGES STARTING SPINE GILT WITH MOROCCO SPINE LABELS( PART MISSING IN VOLUME ONE) INTERNALLY CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND.
A FACSIMILIE OF THE FIRST EDITION OF 1827. TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE BOUND IN FULL POLISHED CALF (A PENCIL NOTE TO THE FEP SAYS BY ZAEHNDORF). INNER DENTELLES MARBLED ENDPAPERS. INSCRIPTION TO FEP. SOME FOXING TO PRELIMS. THEN VERY CLEAN. SLIGHT WEAR TO THE LEATHER BUT VERY GOOD. A SCARCE ITEM.
