Author: J. Woodfall Ebsworth
Title: Choyce Drollery: Songs & Sonnets
Description: Boston, Lincolnshire, Robert Roberts, 1876. Leather. A finely bound large paper copy of this poetical work, presented in the binder's slipcase. Large paper edition of fifty copies, of which this is number 41. Printed for subscribers and with a handwritten note to the recto of the half title with the publisher's initials. With publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work. From the personal library of noted collector Allen Freer with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Contemporary ink inscription from prior owner dated 1877 to front blank. Handsomely rebound in full morocco and presented in the binder's slipcase. Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth was an English clergyman, poet, artist and editor. This particular work follows two earlier collections of reprints of popular poetic literature, having previously published The Westminster Drolleries and The Merry Drolleries. Rebound in full morocco in slipcase. Externally in lovely condition. Slipcase is in lovely condition. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Inscription and initialed by the publisher to the recto of the half title. The odd spot. Slipcase is FINE Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .

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