The poetical works
by Parnell, Thomas
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Glasgow: printed by Andrew Foulis, printer to the University, 1786. Folio, pp. [2], xii, 388, [4] subscriber list (among whom Edmund Burke and Adam Smith); contemporary full speckled calf, red morocco label on spine, edges stained green; front joint cracked (cords holding), rear joint partially cracked; that said, a nice clean copy. Foulis's handsome folio edition of the poems of Thomas Parnell (1679-1718). Parnell's poems were only first published after his death by Pope in 1721, who prefaced them with a dedicatory poem to the Earl of Oxford, which also appears in this edition. Also with a brief Life of Parnell. Gaskell 681.
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- Title
- The poetical works
- Author
- Parnell, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Publisher
- printed by Andrew Foulis, printer to the University
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1786
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