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"Georgian Love Songs" 1949 HADFIELD, John [edited by]

1949

[147] pp.

9.25" x 6"

The Cupid Press

w/ Decorations by Rex Whistler

Limited edition number 330 of 660 copies

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Containing verses by the likes of William Somervile, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, John Gay, Henry Fielding, John Cunningham and William Bedingfield.

A limited edition, with only six hundred and sixty copies printed for the Cupid Press, this being No. 330.

Compiled by John Hadfield.

With six collotype plates from drawings by British painter Rex Whistler, printed after his untimely death during the Second World War. Collated, complete.

A lovely example of this collection.

Included are pieces by Lord Chesterfield, John Gay, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Parnell, R.B. Sheridan, and James Thomson. There is a long section at the back which cites the sources for each of the selected love poems, most of them being the first editions. The six collotype plates after drawings by Rex Whistler were printed at the Ganymed Press.


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