[Rarebooks] fa: CAPS WELL FIT or SELECT EPIGRAMS SERIOUS AND COMIC - Newcastle: 1785

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Listed now, auction ending Sunday, September, 23. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


[William Hilton (attributed to):] Caps Well Fit: or, Select Epigrams. Serious and Comic. By Titus, in Sandgate, and Titus, Everywhere. Newcastle: Printed by T. Angus, for T. Fishburn, Monkwearmouth, and sold by Booksellers in Town and Country, 1785. FIRST EDITION; small 12mo (14 cm) in early morocco-backed marbled boards, later(?) vellum corners stained red; 190 [i.e., 180], [2] pp.; with the final errata leaf. ESTC T3168.

An uncommon collection of epigrammatic verses about life in the Sandgate area of Newcastle and elsewhere. Binding with modest rubbing, wear to the spine ends; offsetting and toning to the leaves, a few scattered small spots. Front paste-down with the small label of noted book collector J. O. Edwards.