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BRYDGES, SIR EGERTON, COMPILER.

Select Funeral Memorials.

Place and Imprint: Kent: Printed at the Private Press of Lee Priory, By John Warwick, 1818.
Edition: First edition.
Bibliographical References: Lowndes vol. 8, page 221, #41; Woodworth, The Literary Career of Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 70.
Condition: Some faint foxing; corner of one leaf torn, only effecting the blank margin; very good copy.
Book ID: 28090

Physical Description

4to, modern blue paste-paper boards, paper label on the upper board, untrimmed. Vignette title-page and six vignettes in the text.

Comments

A collection of six funeral memorials in verse, with annotations on the publication history, brief biographies of the authors and subjects, etc., and as with most things by the antiquary Sir Egerton Brydges (1762-1837), they are entertaining.

Price: $250.00