THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM COWPER 1863 FINE BINDING, ILLUSTRATED

[COWPER, William]. The Poetical Works. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. Illustrated by Birket Foster. London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863.

New edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (170 x 110 x 40 mm.), pp. xlviii, 630, (2). Finely bound in contemporary full morocco. Spine with four raised bands, the compartments and bands ornately ruled, tooled and lettered in gilt. The boards with ornate gilt ruled and tooled frames, the edges and turn-ins similarly gilt ruled. All page edges gilt. Plain endpapers. 8 illustrated plates including a frontispiece portrait of the author with guard-paper. Includes a memoir of the author and footnotes. Printed by Savill and Edwards of Covent-Garden, London. Condition: A wonderful near immaculate copy.