The Gentle Shepherd, a Pastoral Comedy.
by Ramsay, Allan
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Grosse Pointe, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Glasgow: Printed by A. Foulis, 1788.. Hardcover. Good. Large quarto. [ii], x, [ii], 111, 17, 18pp. pi2, a2, b4, A4-O4, AA2-EE2. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked. With frontispiece portrait, 12 plates and 18 pages of music in uncolored aquatint by the Scottish artist, engraver, plate-publisher and bookseller, David Allan. This copy is extra-illustrated with 3 additional plates. First illustrated edition of The Gentle Shepherd. Gaskell 688; Abbey, Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 244; Lewine, Bibliography of 18th Century Art & Illustrated Books, p. 444; Rothschild 1732. From the library of Chalmers Hadley.
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- Bookseller
- Sam Gatteno Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1906
- Title
- The Gentle Shepherd, a Pastoral Comedy.
- Author
- Ramsay, Allan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Glasgow: Printed by A. Foulis, 1788.
- Keywords
- English Literature, Thetare, Poetry, Illustrated Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Eighteenth Century Books;
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Grosse Pointe, Michigan
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- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...