The Poetical Works of James Thomson, James Beattie, Gilbert West, and John Bampfylde. THOMSON (James) etc.

Illustrated by Birket Foster. With Biographical Notices of the Authors.

Frontispiece and seven plates.

8vo. [167 x 102 x 38 mm]. [1]f, xix, [i], 308, viii, 96, vi, 25, [1], iv, 7 pp. Bound in contemporary mid-brown goatskin over slightly bevelled boards, the covers blocked in blind with a double fillet border and Gothic window panel. The spine divided into five panels, lettered in gilt in the second and at the foot, the others tooled in blind, marbled endleaves, gilt and gauffered edges.
London: George Routledge and Co, 1853.

Occasional light spotting but a very good copy. With the bookplate of the Earl of Portsmouth (either Newton Fellowes, 4th Earl (1772-1854) or Isaac Newton Wallop, 5th Earl (1825-1891) of Farleigh House, Hampshire).

Stock no. ebc3767