The Life of George Romney

by William. Blake Hayley, William

$3,250 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

Chichester: W. Mason, 1809. Large 4to, 8 , 416, 7 pp. With portrait frontispiece and 11 engraved plates, including one by Blake after Romney. Large paper copy in red half calf over marbled paper boards, with gilt rules and titling. A very good copy with clean pages and prints throughout, just traces of ageing on the first few pages. § First edition, large-paper copy. Although not substantially bigger than uncut copies of the regular issue, the large-paper

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