Readings in Crabbe. 'Tales of the Hall.' by FITZGERALD, Edward] CRABBE, George

First issue of this enlarged edition; 200 copies printed; pp.xiv,(2)blank242, printed noted pasted in at end; title a little browned, otherwise well preserved in original red cloth, backstrip faded to tan, lettered 'Readings in Crabbe' in gold. 'Brothers' on final page of the introductory essay has been crossed through and 'Borderers' substituted in (FitzGerald's?) manuscript on facing blank. A review of Crabbe's Tales of the Hall in The Literary Chronicle, No.8, June 10, 1819, laid in; ex libris S.F. Watson. First printed for FitzGerald in 1879 in an impression of 350 copies with a single leaf introductory note. 200 copies of an enlarged introduction were printed by Billing for this reissue of which this is the extremely scarce first version, most copies being further augmented the following year. Prideaux pp.46/7.