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Cowper, illustrated by a series of views, in, or near, the park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks. : accompanied with copious descriptions, and a brief sketch of the poet's life

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection D500

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Type of record: Book

Title: Cowper, illustrated by a series of views, in, or near, the park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks. : accompanied with copious descriptions, and a brief sketch of the poet's life

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection D500

Additional creator(s): Brayley, Edward Wedlake (1773-1854) (Other); Storer, James Sargant (1771-1853) (Other); Greig, John (fl.1803-1824) (Other); Swan, James (fl.1802-1815) (Printer); Strickland, Jarrad Edward (1782-1844) (Former owner); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Related people: Cowper, William, 1731-1800

Publisher: printed by J. Swan, Angel Street, Newgate Street, and published by Vernor and Hood, Poultry; James Storer and John Greig, engravers, Chapel Street, Pentonville

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1803

Language: English

Size and medium: 51, [1] p., [13] plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729553

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019889056605181

Description

Text by Edward Wedlake Brayley.


With added engraved title page dated May 1st 1803.


Bedford Collection copy D500 is wanting engraved title page [frontispiece].


Illustrations drawn and engraved by J. Storer and J. Greig.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection D500: excerpt from sale catalogue for this item, no. 444, pasted into front flyleaf.


Bindings


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection D500: contemporary quarter calf, re-backed cloth spine, marbled paper over boards.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection D500: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HSo/42. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Jarrard Edward Strickland [i.e. Jarrad Edward Strickland (1782-1844) of Sizergh Hall, near Kendal, Cumbria].

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