John Gilpin. Iter Johannis Gilpini. Carmen latinum. Auctore Roberto Scott ... Edited

by J.P.M. i.e. James P. Muirhead. by Robert. Cowper Scott, William

$125 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

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London? : Privately printed, 1897. Slim sm. 8vo, 35pp. Old half green calf, marbled boards,gilt top, backstrip lettered in gilt. § Finely printed edition on hand-made paper. Inscribed “C.H.W. from A.J.M. presumably one of Muirhead’s children Haseley Dec: 13 : 1925”. A scarce translation into Latin of Cowper’s “John Gilpin”, first issued in wrappers in 1834-35 in the Oxford University Magazine . DNB notes: “Muirhead

• Binding: Wrappers

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