The Poetical Works of Nicholas Rowe, with the Life of the Author. (Bell's Edition of British Poets Complete from Chaucer to Churchill) by Nicholas Rowe - 1782

Edinburg: At the Apollo Press, by the Martins, 1781. Leatherbound. Ex library - very good +. Bell's Edition. The Poets of Great Britain Complete From Chaucer to Churchill. xlviii, 49-142 p. 13 cm. Engraved frontispiece portrait states Printed for John Bell British Library Strand London Decr. 11th 1781. Engraved title page reads Printed for John Bell, British Library Strand, London. February the 19th, 1782. Book 58 of Bell's Poets. Tree calf binding with gilt trim on edges and spine. Front pastedown has bookplate for Douglas of Cavers, small reference label, and tiny ink notation. Rowe's works include miscellanies, epistles, epigrams, odes, songs, prologues, epilogues, imitations, &c.

London: C.Cooke, 1790 xviii, 138pp +iv Frotis plate of author, vignetted half title, two further full page engravings and numerous tail pieces. The pages are dusty with some evidence of ageing to the earlier pages.

London : C Cooke A fair copy of the scarce Cooke's Edition of Nicholas Rowe's work. Undated but circa 1797. In contemporary full leather binding with bookplate of John Ashley Warre to the front pastedown. John Ashley Warre was a founder member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which became the RSPCA in 1840. The binding is splitting at the spine joints although the boards are still attached. The spine is lacking some leather at the top and the boards are worn at the corners. Contents: 2 title pages (it may be lacking an extra engraved title); Life of Rowe; Recommendatory Poems pp 19-138 with 2 full page plates; contents list iv pp. Generally clean internally with slight marking to endpapers.