Fables: Consisting of Select Parts from Dante, Berni, Chaucer, and Ariosto. Imitated in English Heroic Verse.
First Edition. 2 volumes. 8vo. [219 x 135 x 35 mm]. [1]f, 142pp; xvi, 199 pp. Bound in contemporary mottled calf, the spines divided into five panels with a repeated gilt linked-chain roll, lettered in the second panel and numbered in the fourth, the others tooled with a gilt floral scroll, plain endleaves, marbled edges. (Slight insect damage at the foot of the covers).
London: by T. Bensely, for Payne and Mackinlay, 1804
The second volume contains Camuscan, An Heroic Poem, in Six Books: Founded upon and Comprizing a Free Imitation of Chaucer's Fragment on that Subject.
Occasional light browning and spotting, but a good copy in a very attractive and well preserved binding.
Richard Wharton, FRS (1764/5-1828) of Old Park, Co. Durham, Member of Parliament for Durham 1802-6 and 1807-12. Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges recalled him as a man "of quick talents, much literature, and most pleasing manners, hospitable and open; a man of the world, of a handsome person and benevolent expression".
Bookplate of Westport House, County Mayo, Ireland, where Howard Peter Browne (1788-1845), 2nd Marquess of Sligo formed a fine library, employing George Mullen as one of his binders. Booklabel of James O. Edwards, who bought them from George Bayntun in 2000.
Stock no. ebc1011
Fables: Consisting of Select Parts from Dante, Berni, Chaucer, and Ariosto. Imitated in English Heroic Verse.
First Edition. 2 volumes. 8vo. [219 x 135 x 35 mm]. [1]f, 142pp; xvi, 199 pp. Bound in contemporary mottled calf, the spines divided into five panels with a repeated gilt linked-chain roll, lettered in the second panel and numbered in the fourth, the others tooled with a gilt floral scroll, plain endleaves, marbled edges. (Slight insect damage at the foot of the covers).
London: by T. Bensely, for Payne and Mackinlay, 1804
The second volume contains Camuscan, An Heroic Poem, in Six Books: Founded upon and Comprizing a Free Imitation of Chaucer's Fragment on that Subject.
Occasional light browning and spotting, but a good copy in a very attractive and well preserved binding.
Richard Wharton, FRS (1764/5-1828) of Old Park, Co. Durham, Member of Parliament for Durham 1802-6 and 1807-12. Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges recalled him as a man "of quick talents, much literature, and most pleasing manners, hospitable and open; a man of the world, of a handsome person and benevolent expression".
Bookplate of Westport House, County Mayo, Ireland, where Howard Peter Browne (1788-1845), 2nd Marquess of Sligo formed a fine library, employing George Mullen as one of his binders. Booklabel of James O. Edwards, who bought them from George Bayntun in 2000.
Stock no. ebc1011
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