Horæ Lyricæ: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, in Three Books

by Isaac Watts

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

“Ninth Edition, Corrected“ i.e. First American edition . 248, 4 pp. 12mo. Contemporary colonial sheep, covers ruled in blind with double fillet border, spine in five compartments with raised bands. Wear to binding with some loss at head of spine, bookplate removed from front pastedown, lower corner torn from penultimate leaf. Early owners’ inscriptions on endpapers and title-page “Dan Appleton His Book 1768,” ”Matthew Whipple,” ”D.A.

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