Description

• Fully titled: Poems by William Cowper, Esq Of The Inner Temple
• Miniature Edition in two volumes [Jones & Company, London, 1830]; 9 x 5.5cm
  • Vol 1: blank leaf, 8 pages Publisher’s ads, 2 plates [portrait, tissue guard & University Edition title page, 1827], xv, [blank], 224, [2 blank] pages; salmon silk-woven boards, spine a little faded & rubbed on edges, silk worn at extremities, blue paper on spine with gold titling, all edges gilt, an excellent copy
  • Vol 2: blank leaf, [4], [225]-428, [2 blank] pages; salmon silk-woven boards, spine rubbed, silk worn at extremities, blue paper on spine with gold titling, all edges gilt, an excellent copy
• Part of the Jones’ Diamond Poets series, so named due to the diamond-point tooling used to produce sharp, clear text in these miniature formats