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DOUGLAS GRANT'S COPY

BOWLES, W[illiam] Lisle. Scenes and shadows of days departed: a narrative...

London. William Pickering, 1837. First edition.
8vo. [18], xlv, [1], 118pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, an initial publisher's advertisement a catalogue, and a final advertisement leaf. Original publisher's green buckram, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned, lettering-piece chipped. Book-label of J. O. Edwards and pencilled ownership inscription of professor of American literature at the University of Leeds Douglas Grant (1921-1969) to FEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, frontispiece browned and foxed.
The first edition of the collected verse of Church of England clergyman William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850).
£ 100.00 Antiquates Ref: 23690