Selections from the Fox Pointe Manor Library

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Lot 168
  • 168

Hopkins, Charles

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • The History of Love. A Poem: in a Letter to a Lady. London: Printed by J. Dawks, for Jacob Tonson, 1695
  • paper, ink, leather
8vo (7 1/4 x 4 3/8 in.; 184 x 111 mm). Half-title, title within double-ruled border, divisional titles for "Several Stories of Ovid's Metamorphoses" (G3r) and "A Pastoral Elegy on the Death of Delia" (I4r); light browning in quires H–K.  Contemporary crimson morocco gilt, tooled with three central quatrefoils filled with large tulips and flower heads, the border composed of floral sprays, pointillé, and small circles, dentelles gilt, the spine gilt in six compartments tooled with one large daisy flanked in each corner by a small circle, edges gilt.  

Provenance

J.O. Edwards (ticket on front pastedown)

Literature

Wing H2724; ESTC R36004

Catalogue Note

First edition, in a handsome contemporary morocco binding.