Adelphi: A Sketch of the Character, and an Account of the Last Illness, of the Late Rev. John Cowper, A.M.

by William Cowper, John Newton

£165 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Printed by C. Whittingham, and sold by T. Williams, 1802. Spirituality FIRST EDITION. Small octavo in half-sheets 17 x 10cm , pp.36. Later Victorian quarter maroon morocco with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Heavily trimmed; remains of a black ink ownership to title page; lightly browned to preliminaries. Joints and boards rubbed with some bumping to edges. Very good. A record of the poet's interactions with his brother during

• Binding: Leather

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