File — Box: 23
(JOHN BELL)
Scope and Contents
MARY ROBINSON. POEMS.
London: John Bell, British Library, 1791.
8vo. Portrait frontispiece engraved after Jos. Reynolds. Original paper boards, handwritten label on spine; preserved in a cloth case by J. Woods. See Printing and the Mind of Man, BM Exhibition, 127: 'The book shown is set in a long primer type of Edmund Fry & Co., cast on a small pica body.'; Bronson, p. 27: 'A more successful title page, with a charming frontispiece, to a book which lacks nothing but poetic merit, is John Bell's elegant subscription edition of Perdita Robinson's Poems.' Provenance: Ownership note of Eliza Battye, May 3rd 1792. Purchased 1977. RX.
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