Author: Francis Grose
Title: The Olio Being a Collection of Essays Dialogues Letters
Description: London, Hooper and Wigstead, 1796. Fine Binding. A beautifully bound copy of Francis Grose's collection of essays, dialogues and letters. With a charming fore-edge painting of a mountainous scene. The second edition of this work, which was posthumously published. With a portrait frontispiece of the author, and bookseller's adverts to the rear of the book.From the library of Allen and Beryl Freer. The Freers were avid art collectors, and acquired quite the selection over the twentieth century, of works mostly bought from the artists. Allen organised many exhibitions of artists he admired and published several works on art.  With Freer's bookplate to the front pastedown. Allen Freer is possibly the artist of this fore-edge painting as he was a keen artist himself.This anthology is a collection of Grose's biographical sketches, dialogues, letters, poetry, prose, epigrams and epigraphs. All except the essays were published in the Grumbler.  Finely bound, in a full crushed morocco binding. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .

Keywords: Poetry Essays Fore-edge Painting Foredge Painting Essays None


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