Poems and Plays (1805)
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Poems and Plays (1805)
by William Richardson
6 ½ x 4. In English. Published by Mundell & Son, Edinburgh, 1805. A New Edition. Two volumes. Complete. Handsomely bound in half leather with marbled boards. Flat spines with six compartments separated with single gilt rules. Leather joints in good order with no cracking. Covers in EXCELLENT condition. Red morocco label to each volume with bright gilt title, “RICHARDSON’S POEMS & PLAYS.” Very light foxing and browning to endpapers. Text block clean and bright throughout. Marbled edges. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait to Volume One. Both volumes with an armorial bookplate of Sarah Phillott, along with a small bookseller’s label (J. Ford, of Bond Street, Bath) to top corner of front pastedown of Volume One. Overall, a NEAR FINE copy, with trivial wear and virtually as new internally.
William Richardson was a Professor of Humanity at the University of Glasgow in Edinburgh, Scotland. Thomas Wilson Bayne writes that “Richardson’s contributions to literature were considerable; his essays on Shakespeare are thoughtful and vigorous; his paper on Hamilton of Bangour, in the ‘Lounger’ helped to reveal a true poet. Richardson's poems display culture, sense of form, and appreciation of good models.”
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