Lot 74
Somervile (William) The Chace. A Poem, first edition, engraved frontispiece after Gravelot, contemporary mottled calf, for G.Hawkins, and sold by T.Cooper, 1735 & other editions of the same, 4to & 8vo (4)
Hammer Price: £180
Description
Somervile (William) The Chace. A Poem, first edition, engraved frontispiece after Gravelot (trimmed to edges of plate-mark and tipped into blank leaf), errata leaf at end, title lightly soiled and with small ink stain to inner margin, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine with red roan label (chipped), [Rothschild 1932], for G.Hawkins, and sold by T.Cooper, 1735; another edition, light browning at beginning and end, Mexborough bookplates, later green morocco, elaborately blocked in gilt, spine gilt, t.e.g., Birmingham, Robert Martin [with Baskerville type], 1767; another edition, edited by Edward Topham, engraved additional title and plates after Sartorius, light foxing, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, spine gilt, Albion Press, 1804, all a little rubbed; and another copy of the first (cropped), 4to & 8vo (4)
Description
Somervile (William) The Chace. A Poem, first edition, engraved frontispiece after Gravelot (trimmed to edges of plate-mark and tipped into blank leaf), errata leaf at end, title lightly soiled and with small ink stain to inner margin, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine with red roan label (chipped), [Rothschild 1932], for G.Hawkins, and sold by T.Cooper, 1735; another edition, light browning at beginning and end, Mexborough bookplates, later green morocco, elaborately blocked in gilt, spine gilt, t.e.g., Birmingham, Robert Martin [with Baskerville type], 1767; another edition, edited by Edward Topham, engraved additional title and plates after Sartorius, light foxing, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, spine gilt, Albion Press, 1804, all a little rubbed; and another copy of the first (cropped), 4to & 8vo (4)