The Poetical Works
by Campbell, Thomas
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Spine sunned a shade; bookplate on front pastedown, alongside a small portrait of Campbell; bookseller's description pasted in f
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Edward Moxon, 1837. First Edition. Spine sunned a shade; bookplate on front pastedown, alongside a small portrait of Campbell; bookseller's description pasted in first blank. 8vo, frontispiece, [x], 306pp; crushed morocco gilt, with elaborative decorative spine-tooling by L. Brock; a.e.g. A most handsome copy, embellished with two signed documents tipped in: a handwritten ticket admitting the bearer to a reading by Campbell (1818) and an autograph letter signed by Campbell to a friend named Williams, inviting him to come see a newly completed portrait by an artist he calls Thomson, possibly Irish painter Thomas Clement Thompson, who executed a portrait of Campbell in 1833, the same year as this letter. This volume features a superb sequence of steel-engraved vignettes by J.M.W. Turner. An appealing copy with no spotting or discoloration to fine vignettes.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Locus Solus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 206489
- Title
- The Poetical Works
- Author
- Campbell, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used - Spine sunned a shade; bookplate on front pastedown, alongside a small portrait of Campbell; bookseller's description pasted in f
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Edward Moxon
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1837
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- Sunned
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Bookplate
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- Morocco
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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