[Rarebooks] FS: Poemsy of Death

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Frobisher's New Select Collection of Epitaphs; Humorous,
Whimsical, Moral & Satyrical”

By Nathaniel Frobisher.
Published in London; Printed for Nath'l Frobisher, in the Pavement, York:
no date (1790).

DISCUSSION: A pleasant, well-chosen selection of mostly 17th and 18th
century epitaphs, indexed by name and by the first line of each epitaph.
The title page contains a pleasing vignette of a mourner in a churchyard
by moonlight. Not a common work.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 4.5"x7", 216 pages, title-page vignette. Period
polished speckled calf with gilt border rules and gilt rules on the spine,
separating little gilt harp emblems. With the engraved 19th century
armorial bookplate of Francis Freeling, the famed book collector,
Secretary and reformer of the English Post Office, fellow of the Society
of Antiquaries, and original member of the Roxburghe Club.

CONDITION NOTES: Spine label perished; covers with some scuffing;a little
internal toning and scattered spotting, tight hinges.

PRICE:  $200 -

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