DOUGLAS GRANT'S COPY
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
