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PERCY, Thomas (1729-1811)]. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. London: J. Dodsley, 1765. 3 volumes, 8°, half titles in vols. II and III, engraved frontispiece, title vignettes (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked preserving original spines, rubbed). Provenance : James Brodie (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Rothschild 1521: "The 'Dedication', ... though signed 'Thomas Percy', is by Samuel Johnson." GOLDSMITH, Oliver (1728-1774). The Haunch of Venison, a Poetical Epistle to Lord Clare . London: G. Kearsley and J. Ridley, 1776. 4°, engraved portrait of the author by Bretherton after Henry Bunbury (half-title missing from recto of frontispiece, a few page numbers cropped, some light browning and staining). 19th-century half tan morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION, first or second issue; with another 8 works in 30 volumes. (36)