Description
FIRST EDITIONS of both works, the two volumes with 20 illustrations in the text and more than 100 fine steel-engraved headpieces and tailpieces, after designs mostly by J. M. W. Turner; some images offset, very lightly toned, a little marginal browing and the occasional spot, pp. vii, [1], 284; viii, 295, [1], 8vo, handsome contemporary bindings of crushed green morocco, profusely gilt, spines with raised bands, very brightly gilt edges; Poems with a few light scratches to the lower board; Italy with 'proofs' in pencil below the imprint; Poems has five authorial autograph leaves tipped in (on stubs) in a clear hand on blue paper (see below); both volumes with dedicatory inscription: 'Thomas Unwins Esq from the author' (see below) armorial bookplate of Frederick William Cosens (see below), very good