POEMS BY WILLIAM COWPER - VOL II (INCOMPLETE SET) by William Cowper - 1821

London: F.C. And J. Rivington, 1817. Cloth. Poor. Volume II only of Three Volumes. Cover missing, front end paper to title page of poem "The Task" loose from binding, remainder still tightly bound. Reading Copy.

Blackie & son ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 392 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Gilt top text block edge. Visible cracking to hinges and gutters causing boards to be loose. However, binding & pages throughout remain firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Light sunning & crushing to spine. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear.

Tilt and Bogue, 1841. Illustrated Edition. Hardback. Good. 336 pages Volume 2 only. Blue cloth with gilt decoration Rubbed with a couple of v. small nicks. Pages on the whole clean with an odd foxing spot.

Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, nd;. Tenth edition. Hardback. Good-/ No dj. 514pp with marked portrait frontis. Pencil scribbles on endpapers. Lacks free front endpaper. Internally clean. Black boards with gilt & red decoration an front, back & spine. Edges scuffed with small tear at hinge. All edges gilt. .

William Collins Publisher, 1863. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1863. No Edition Remarks. 560 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound brown leather with brown cloth covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Some cracking to hinges and gutters. Binding loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and rubbing to corners and rubbing to spine. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York Harper c 1850, 1850. Paperback. Fair. G 1st thus HB 2 vols green cloth strange waxy endpapers inscription dated 1853

Paperback / softback. New.

F. C. and J. Rivington, 1815. Hardcover. Good. 1815. No edition remarks. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Fully bound brown leather with gilt. Gilt edges to textblock. Small book. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper and front pastedown. Boards have heavy wear with bumped and abraded corners. Spine ends similarly worn and spine itself strongly scuffed. Gilt dulled. Board surfaces scratched and rubbed.

Hardback. New.