Front cover image for The poetical works of William Cowper

The poetical works of William Cowper

Print Book, English, 1830-1831
William Pickering, London, 1830-1831
Steel engravings Specimens Great Britain 1830
3 volumes : 1 portrait plate (steel engraving) ; 18 cm.
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Volumes I-II are dated 1830; vol. III is dated 1831
Publisher's advertisements on p. [1-8] bound before front free endpaper of vol. I. Publisher's advertisements printed on one smaller page of yellow paper inserted at beginning of vol. II
Publisher's device printed on t.p. of each volume, and on the colophon of vol. II
Preliminary steel-engraved portrait of William Cowper in vol. I with imprints: "H. Robinson sc." and "Published by William Pickering, London, 1830."
Vol. I includes "Memoir of Cowper" [by John Mitford, Vicar of Benhall; Cf. BLPC]: p. [vii]-xc
Vol. I includes "Preface." by John Newton dated 1782: p. [xci]-xcvi
Charles Whittingham printed at the "Chiswick Press". Cf. Ing, Janet Thompson. Charles Whittingham the Younger and the Chiswick Press, 1985