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Dublin / London: Printed for William Wilson / Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1772. Full Calf. Fine-. First Editions of these two eighteenth-century poems in handsome contemporary binding with distinguished provenance. 4to (262 x 208mm): [8],50,2]; [4],156pp, with title page vignettes, list of subscribers, preliminary advertisement leaf, and final errata leaf; p. 49 misnumbered 94. Contemporary tree calf with large gilt armorial of T. G. Fortescue Esqr, Ravensdale Park to front and rear covers and engraved armorial book plate of Ella Park Lawrence and George Appleton Lawrence to front paste-down. A very handsome production in period boards, elegantly rebacked by Fitterer, securely bound and clean throughout. Rothschild 830 and Hayward 176 (for Dyer). Leslie's "wonder and delight" in the lakes, mountains, and woods of Killarney inspired his topographical poem (a second, octavo, edition appeared the same year, as did Phoenix Park, Leslie's only other published work). Two years earlier,…
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Killarney: A Poem; [bound with:] The Fleece, A Poem. In Four Books [Ravensdale Park]
by LESLIE, John (1736-1778); DYER, John (1699-1757)
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Kirkcudbright : A Royal Burgh. A book of drawings with letterpress
by KING, Jessie M. (1875-1949)
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London & Glasgow: Gowans and Gray Limited, 1934. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine+. Publisher's pictorial Japon wrappers illustrated in color, original glassine jacket. 8vo (221 x 140mm): [40]pp, including engraved titled page and 18 full-page plates. Inscription to blank verso of front cover, else near fine or better. White B210. Although the title page implied otherwise (Book 1), there was no second volume. King was one of the Glasgow Girls and an important member of the Kirkcudbright Artists' Colony, which thrived between about 1850, with the emergence of the Faed family of artists in Gatehouse of Fleet, and ended with the death, in 1949, of King, who, with her husband E. A. Taylor, had settled in Kirkcudbright in 1920. The town, within Dumfries and Galloway, attracted many of Scotland's leading artists, among them E. A. Hornel, William Mouncey, William Stewart MacGeorge, Charles Oppenheimer, and S. J. Peploe. many of whom were fictionalized in Little Esson, a 1907 novel by S. R. Crockett. N. B.…
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