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BAILLIE, JOANNA (EDITOR). A COLLECTION OF POEMS, CHIEFLY MANUSCRIPT AND FROM LIVING AUTHORS, Edited for the Benefit of a Friend, by Joanna Baillie.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. First edition. 8vo. Contemporary (or near-contemporary) half-leather over marbled boards. Gilt titles and elegant designs to spine with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers with matching marbling to all edges. Rubbing to edges, boards. Ocassional foxing throughout. Else a sound, and uncommonly handsome copy. Very good. xliv. 330. Leather Bound. Very Good. First edition of this anthology of verse which includes works by Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott, Bowles, Hemans, Crabbe, Campbell, Rogers, and the editor herself. List of Subscribers present, naming numerous leading and important Britains of the day.
Offered for US$ 225.00 by: Brian Cassidy, Bookseller - Book number: 11053