Description
[005202] Thelwall, John. Poems on Various Subjects By John Thelwall. London: The Author, and Sold By John Denis, 1787. First Edition. 16mo. Hardback. Good. Two volumes bound in one – Volume I – [5], vi-vii, [2], 2-215pp, [1]; and Volume II – [5], vi-vii, [6], 6-212pp. Contemporary calf, smooth spine, divided into seven panels by gilt double lines, title label to second panel
Rubbed to extremities, corners bumped, repair towards foot of upper outer joint, light blue stain to foot of frontispiece, signatures M and N in the second volume with a small circular stain leading to the loss of one word on N1r, former owner’s initials to half titles, but otherwise internally fairly bright and clean
Armorial bookplate of George Forbes, 6th Earl of Granard (1760-1837). With both half titles and the engraved frontispiece drawn by Thelwall and engraved by Skelton (probably William Skelton (1763-1848), see Alexander, A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers 1714-1820, pages 836-837), but bound without the list of subscribers
John Thelwall (1764-1834), radical, journalist, poet, and speech therapist. Thelwall’s first book, and uncommon
ESTC T116867, showing at Cambridge only, with a copy of the first volume only at the BL, and six copies in the US
