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POETRY]. -- PERCY, Thomas. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other Pieces of our earlier Poets. London: J. Dodsley, 1765. 3 volumes, 8 o . Half-titles in vols. II and III (all issued); errata, advertisement and notice to the binder leaves at end of vol. III. Engraved frontispiece in vol. I, engraved leaf of music, title-, head- and tail-vignettes. With all of the cancellantia listed in Rothschild except C2 and C7 in vol. I, U2, U3 and U4 in vol. II and B3 in vol. III all appearing to be conjugate. Contemporary calf gilt. Provenance: Marianne Ford (signatures on half-titles and volume one title, 1804; booklabels). FIRST EDITION. -- [CHATTERTON, Thomas]. Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century. London: Printed for T. Payne and Son, 1777. 8 o . Errata leaf at end. Contemporary speckled calf, morocco spine label; cloth folding case. Provenance: George Montagu (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, second state of c4, cancelled and omitting the phrase "and were probably composed by him"; page xiii misnumbered xii and page 206 misnumbered 06 as usual. -- [CHATTERTON, Thomas]. Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century. London: T. Payne and Son, 1777. 8 o . Engraved facsimile, errata leaf at end. Contemporary speckled calf, morocco spine label; quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Matthew Lewis (armorial bookplate); C. Panshanger (bookplate). Exhibited: Grolier Club, 'This powerfull rime,' 1975, no. 41. FIRST EDITION, second state of c4, cancelled and omitting the phrase "and were probably composed by him"; page xiii misnumbered xii as usual, but page 206 not misnumbered. -- ARNOLD, Matthew. The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems. London: B. Clay for B. Fellowes, 1849. 8 o . Half-title. Publisher's green ribbed cloth, decorated in blind, gilt-lettered on spine, yellow endpapers, uncut; cloth slipcase. Provenance: William Stubbs, Vicar of Havestock (inscription on front free endpaper, 1850); William Cester (bookplate); A.S.W. Rosenbach (according to Grolier catalogue). Exhibited: Grolier Club, 'This powerfull rime,' 1975, no. 62. FIRST EDITION. Ashley I, p.9; Hayward 256; Tinker 128. (5)
POETRY]. -- PERCY, Thomas. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other Pieces of our earlier Poets. London: J. Dodsley, 1765. 3 volumes, 8 o . Half-titles in vols. II and III (all issued); errata, advertisement and notice to the binder leaves at end of vol. III. Engraved frontispiece in vol. I, engraved leaf of music, title-, head- and tail-vignettes. With all of the cancellantia listed in Rothschild except C2 and C7 in vol. I, U2, U3 and U4 in vol. II and B3 in vol. III all appearing to be conjugate. Contemporary calf gilt. Provenance: Marianne Ford (signatures on half-titles and volume one title, 1804; booklabels). FIRST EDITION. -- [CHATTERTON, Thomas]. Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century. London: Printed for T. Payne and Son, 1777. 8 o . Errata leaf at end. Contemporary speckled calf, morocco spine label; cloth folding case. Provenance: George Montagu (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, second state of c4, cancelled and omitting the phrase "and were probably composed by him"; page xiii misnumbered xii and page 206 misnumbered 06 as usual. -- [CHATTERTON, Thomas]. Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century. London: T. Payne and Son, 1777. 8 o . Engraved facsimile, errata leaf at end. Contemporary speckled calf, morocco spine label; quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Matthew Lewis (armorial bookplate); C. Panshanger (bookplate). Exhibited: Grolier Club, 'This powerfull rime,' 1975, no. 41. FIRST EDITION, second state of c4, cancelled and omitting the phrase "and were probably composed by him"; page xiii misnumbered xii as usual, but page 206 not misnumbered. -- ARNOLD, Matthew. The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems. London: B. Clay for B. Fellowes, 1849. 8 o . Half-title. Publisher's green ribbed cloth, decorated in blind, gilt-lettered on spine, yellow endpapers, uncut; cloth slipcase. Provenance: William Stubbs, Vicar of Havestock (inscription on front free endpaper, 1850); William Cester (bookplate); A.S.W. Rosenbach (according to Grolier catalogue). Exhibited: Grolier Club, 'This powerfull rime,' 1975, no. 62. FIRST EDITION. Ashley I, p.9; Hayward 256; Tinker 128. (5)