Price: £15
Subject: Literature
Published Date: 1933
Stock Number: 68947
(Your basket is currently empty)Edited by H.O. White [The Percy Reprints, no. XII.]
Description: woodcut heading from original edition used as frontispiece, two title-pages from original editions reproduced at appropriate junctures, pp. xxxiv, 111, crown 8vo, original quarter natural linen and grey boards, printed in black to upper board within typographic border, backstrip lettered in black, covers browned with some light foxing to backstrip, edges untrimmed and a little spotted, flyleaf with the ownership inscription of historian John Ehrman, goodPublication Details: Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1933
Notes: An important new edition of verse by the prison chaplain, Ordinary of Newgate; the editor, White, had a few years earlier written an essay calling him a 'forgotten poet and critic of the eighteenth century'.
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