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[005270] Porter, R. The Pleasures of Home, with Other Poems. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. Second Edition. 12mo. Hardback. Good. [6]-ii, [5], 4-128pp. Contemporary full calf, raised bands, spine in five panels, title label to second panel, matching author label to fourth, remaining panels with central lozenge tool, covers with Greek key border, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, all edges marbled, marbled spot patterned endpapers

Rubbed to extremities, lacking one ffep, some light browning and off setting from frontispiece, occasional soiling, especially to pages 115-117, but generally fairly clean

With an engraved frontispiece by R.[obert] Pollard (see Alexander, A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers 1714-1820, pages 707-710) after S. Williams