Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 186

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Young, Edward (1683-1765)
Night Thoughts.

London: Printed by C. Whittingham for T. Heptinstall, 1798.

Large octavo, illustrated with engraved title and portrait by Collyer and eight full-page engraved plates after Thomas Stothard's (1755-1834) drawings engraved by Rothwell, Dadley, Neagle, and Sanders; bound in full contemporary straight-grained red morocco, ornately tooled in gilt on both boards and spine, with extended inner turn-ins decorated with gilt tooling, inner leather hinges, marbled paper insets inside both boards, aeg.; signed "Elizabeth Barrett" on ffep, not "the" Elizabeth Barrett; the binding with a slightly sunned spine, lightly rubbed, very nicely preserved, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.