Poems
William Cowper (1666-1709)
Category
Books
Date
1855
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3260102
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second edition.. xlviii, 632 p., frontis. :. ill., port. ;. 8vo,. 17 cm. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Binding: nineteenth-century read leather over boards; geometric gold stamped decoration to upper and lower covers; gilt edges; gold tooling to spine; 'Cowper's Poetical Works' lettered in gold directly on spine; gold tooling to board edges and turn-ins; binder's ticket tipped in at bottom of rear pastedown: 'Leighton Son & Hodge, Shoe Lane, London'.
Makers and roles
William Cowper (1666-1709) Robert Aris Willmott (1809 - 1863) William Cowper (1731-1800) Myles Birket Foster (North Shields 1825 - Weybridge 1899)