The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, Esq... in two volumes. With decorations. with Vol. III. The Works... Containing letters to particular friends, from the year 1739 to 1763

by William Shenstone

$325 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

London: Printed by H. Woodfall by J. Dodsley, 1768 and 1769. 3 vols. 8vo, 332, 4, index ; vii, 343; viii, 360 pp. Engraved frontispieces, title vignettes in vols. I & II, folding map of the Leasowes, several other vignettes and decorations. Contemporary full speckled calf, double gilt rules, backstrips with raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt and with red gilt-lettered labels, red sprinkled edges. Bindings a little worn, joints cracked, backstrips darkened, crowns

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