Sorrows Sacred to the Memory of Penelope.

by Sir Brooke Boothby Bart by Henry Fuseli

$4,500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: W. Bulmer, 1796. Folio, 89 pp. With a frontispiece, 2 plates, and several illustrations in the text. Original blue boards, printed label on upper cover, slightly foxed here and there but generally a fine untrimmed copy as issued. § First edition, one of a tiny number of large-paper copies. Only one other copy has been located in the Essick collection, Fuseli’s copy . The frontispiece is a stipple-engraving proof before all letters by Benedetti

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