Avon: a poem in three parts

by John Huckell

$2,000 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition · Signed

Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville, 1758. First edition, 4to, pp. 78, collating as in Gaskell without the first blank and with the final leaf signed 2K ; contemporary three-quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine with two raised bands; margins trimmed, bookplate of Lord Stanley of Alderley on front pastedown, old Portico rubber stamp on title page and several leaves; otherwise fine. The second book from Baskerville's press.

• Binding: Leather

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