The Triumphs Of Temper. A Poem: in six Cantos. A New Edition

by William Hayley

$595 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Chichester: William Mason for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817. Sm. 8vo, xii, 166 pp. With a color-printed frontispiece by Brown after Romney. Slightly later polished calf gilt, backstrip richly gilt, marbled edges, signature at front of H. Cotes dated 1821. Ink corrections to the text, perhaps by Cotes. § A beautiful copy, handsomely bound, with the frontispiece printed in five colors. Friedman, Color Printing in England, #31. The Vershbow copy, with bookplate.

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