BOURNE, Vincent

Miscellaneous Poems. Consisting of Originals and Translations

London: For W. Ginger, 1772. First Edition. Quarto (25cm). Contemporary calf boards, professionally re-spined to style, preserving original boards and endpapers; xvi,352pp. Includes the List of Subscribers. Half-title not called for. Scattered and faint foxing to text, still a solid, straight and expertly-conserved copy. Early private ink-stamp ("Kendall") to front endpaper.

Poems in parallel Latin and English; attributed to Bourne, who was second schoolmaster at Westminster School during Cowper's attendance there. However see note in ESTC: "This edition contains many poems which are falsely attributed to Bourne."

Price: $300.00

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