Author: (Cowper).
Title: COWPER, Illustrated by a Series of Views, In, or Near, The Park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks.
Description: Vernor and Hood ...James Storer and John Greig ..., 1803. 1st Ed. Large paper copy. 11.5 x 8.5 inches. Additional engraved title page, 12 plates engraved by Grieg and Storer after their illustrations. Light age toning, rebound in C20th gilt fillet edged red half calf with brown cloth, gilt lettering and gilt motifs to lightly faded spine. ¶ With the affixed bookplates of: William Cowper (1690-1740) was the Clerk of the Parliaments, responsible for the operation of the House of Commons and House of Lords. He also advised the Speaker and Members on parliamentary procedure; J. Cowper MDCCC; Henry Cowper Esq.(1758-1840), Lawyer. Loosely inserted are two Panshanger bookplates (one of the Cowper seats), Wrest Park bookpate and one other. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with Mrs Cowper Mother of the Poet Pinx D. Heinz, W. Blake sculpt 1802; Stipple engraved portrait of William Cowper Esq. after T. Lawrence engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi; stipple engraved portrait of William Cowper engraved by Maddochs; engraved portrait; Stipple engraving of William Cowper by William Blake, after Sir Thomas Lawrence 1802 (1793); Portrait of William Cowper engraved by William Blake, after George Romney (1734-1802), and printed on Blakes own Press by his Wife Catherine, captioned 'From a Portrait in Crayons Drawn from the Life by Romney in 1792. Engraved by W. Blake 1802. William Cowper Carmine Nobilem. Publish'd Novembr: 5, 1802, by J. Johnson, St. Pauls Church Yard'; from the first state of William Hayley's, Life of Cowper, 1803; William Cowper engraved by Greatbach after George Romney; ‘Motto on a Clock’ engraved by Blake published No. 5 1802 by J. Johnson St Pauls Church Yard. The Blake plates extracted from Hayley’s ‘The Life, and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Esq.’

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