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[8], [frontis], i-x, 1-404, i-xxxvi, 1-133 pages. Hardcover: H 22.75cm x L 14.25cm. Contemporary full leather; boards stained; patches of surface peeling to front board; scuffing losses to boards' gilt tooled edges; spine ends scuffed with glue repair to 3.75cm tearing at head of front joint; spine retains its gilt lettered brown title label (but with misspelling "Thompson's" - should be "Thomson's"). Marbled text block edges faded. Marbled endpapers. Ink and pencil ownership signatures/inscriptions on front flyleaf; unpaged four-leaf publisher's catalog for Grigg & Elliot (although Elliot does not appear on the title page imprint) precedes frontis with pencil owner inscription at top of page [3]; frontispiece's tissue guard sheet removed per gutter stub; toning/foxing throughout; several page corners creased from fold-downs; old ink and pencil writing on rear flyleaf verso and rear free endpaper recto. Double column text. Binding is firm. Cowper-related text on pages 1-404 followed by "The Poetical Works of James Thomson" which includes "Memoir of James Thomson" plus Addenda.…

i-xxvi, 27-551 pages. Hardcover: H 25.25cm x L 17cm. Contemporary full calf leather binding; some staining, surface abrasion/peeling to boards with slender wear at edges; spine head chipped with slender surface chipping along front joint; spine's black title label with slight loss at right edge but with gilt lettering still bright. Fading to text block's marbled edges. Marbled endpapers. Front pastedown has likely antebellum bookseller ticket "Frierson & Hawkins, | Booksellers, | Columbia, Tenn." and undated but 20th century personal bookplate of John Kimbrough Johnson as well as segregation-era institutional bookplate for Rodes' Memorial Library noting library's availability to any white person of Pulaski, Tennessee (no other institutional markings readily apparent upon a cursory perusal). Some foxing/toning to interior leaves. Double column text other than initial pages. Binding is firm.…