ASSOCIATION COPY
Chevy chase, a poem. Founded on The Ancient Ballad.
London.
Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies...by J. M'Creery, 1813.
First edition.
Quarto.
[2], 108pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled green morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned, discolouration and marking to boards. Ink annotation providing author's name to drop-head title, lightly foxed, overall internally clean and crisp. Newspaper clipping to verso of FFEP announcing the death of Henry Roscoe, pasted beneath manuscript note reading; 'I wish James G. Roscoe to have the / quarto edition of Chevy Chase bound / in green morocco / In memory of Henry Roscoe / March 1836', booklabel and private ink-stamp of James G. Roscoe to to recto of blank fly-leaf.
An association copy of the first edition of Robert Roscoe's adaptation of the traditional English hunting ballad.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 15154
