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Title: Five volumes of 18th century poetry
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Date Published: 1768-1811
Description: 5 volumes. Variously sized and bound in calf and plain boards. Various editions.Works from 18th century poets including John Trumbull, William Wilkie, John Shaw, and James Thomson. Plus a collection of Scottish literature compiled by Walter Ruddiman.Includes:
Wilkie, William. Fables. London; Edinburgh: Edward and Charles Dilly; Kincaid and J. Bell, 1768. (12mo) contemporary calf, morocco spine label, spine tooled in gilt. First Edition.
Trumbull, John. M‘Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem in Four Cantos. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1791. (12mo) contemporary speckled calf, morocco spine label, lettering in gilt. Second Carey edition.
Shaw, John. Poems by the Late Doctor John Shaw. Philadelphia; Baltimore: Edward Earle; Edward J. Coale, 1810. (12mo) rebacked cloth-backed boards, new printed label. First Edition.
Thomson, James. The Seasons... London: Wilkie and Robinson, J. Walker, Cadell and Davies et al. 1811. Illustrated with five plates. (8vo) contemporary diced calf ruled in gilt, raised bands, morocco spine label, spine tooled in gilt; all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Later edition.
Ruddiman, Walter, compiler. A Collection of Scarve, Curious and Valuable Pieces, in both Verse and Prose;... Edinburgh: Printed by T. Ruddiman, 1785. (12mo) later half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands; spine tooled in gilt; all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Second edition. Front hinge cracked, spine strip separating.

Varying wear and rubbing to boards, some joints previously repaired; bookplates, ink ownership marks, foxing and staining, some tender hinges; very good.