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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry , edited by Thomas Percy Bishop of Dromore, London: for J. Dodsley, 1765, 3 volumes, 8°, engraved frontispiece, engraved culs-de-lampe, volume II with final leaf of engraved music, volume III with final advertisement leaf and directions to the binder (title to vol. I stained at inner margin, engraved portrait of Percy inserted as frontispiece to vol. II, lacking half title to vol. III), contemporary stained calf (rubbed, headcap of vol. III worn), contemporary owner's name of "Hamond" to front pastedown of volume I. [Rothschild 1521] -- [Samuel HOOLE] Modern Manners in a series of familar epistles , London: for R. Faulder, 1781, 8°, first edition, first issue, [2] + vi + 123 + [1]p., with half title (some spotting, worming to inner margins), contemporary calf-backed red marbled boards, ex libris Robert, Marquis of Crewe -- Britain, a poem in three books , Edinburgh: by Wal. Ruddiman jun. and Company for the author, 1762, 12°, FIRST EDITION, vii + [3] + 84 + [2]p., engraved frontispiece, with final leaf containing paraphrases of the mottoes on the frontispiece, contemporary calf (rubbed, upper joints cracked), with pencil note to front pastedown attributing the work to Robert Colvill of Dysart. With 6 other volumes of verse, one in original wrappers with ownership inscription of Richard Monckton Milnes, others in calf, and the Countess of Charleville's verse translation of Voltaire's La Pucelle; or The Maid of Orleans (2 vols., no imprint, 1796-97). (11)