Avon: A Poem in Three Parts

by John Huckell

$2,975 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition · Signed

Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1758. 4to, 3 , 78 pp. Original wrappers bound into quarter red calf, a bit worn, occasional spotting or discoloration. Front pastedown with bookplates of Ralph Straus and Robert Hartshorne. § First edition -- K2 is signed 2K and the “O” of Poems in title is inverted as usual; “Cambden” is thus misspelt on p. 32, and “had” is omitted from the last line on p. 51. One of Baskerville’s scarcest

• Binding: Wrappers

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