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Friendship in death; in letters from the dead to the living. To which are added letters moral and entertaining, in prose and verse. By Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe. Cooke's edition. Embellished with superb engravings.
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ROWE, Elizabeth Singer (1674--1737)
Friendship in death; in letters from the dead to the living. To which are added letters moral and entertaining, in prose and verse. By Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe. Cooke's edition. Embellished with superb engravings.
London (Place), printed for C. Cooke, and sold by all the booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland,, [1800?].
300, xii p., add. engr. t.-pl., engr. frontis. port., [4] pl. ; 14.3 cm. (18º)
First published in 1728. The additional engraved title-page by Richard Corbauld, reading 'Rowe's Letters, forming part of Cooke's Pocket Edition of Sacred Classics, ...' is dated 1800; the other plates are dated 1796 and 1797. Reissue of the [1797?] edition (ESTC t134488). The publisher Charles Cooke extended the formula of illustrated pocket editions previously used by John Bell in his Poets of Great Britain series (109 vols, 1776--82) to publish series of uniform pocket editions in other genres such as 'British Classics', 'Sacred Classics', novels and plays, all 'Superbly Embellished'.
Copy Notes Bound as issued with a 12-pp. 'Plan And Catalogue of Cooke's ... Pocket Library' (q.v.).
Binding Contemporary early C19th tree calf, gilt-tooled spine, black and red leather spine-labels. Uniform with other volumes of Cooke's Pocket Editions in the Soane Museum.
Reference Number 1086
Friendship in death; in letters from the dead to the living. To which are added letters moral and entertaining, in prose and verse. By Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe. Cooke's edition. Embellished with superb engravings.
London (Place), printed for C. Cooke, and sold by all the booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland,, [1800?].
300, xii p., add. engr. t.-pl., engr. frontis. port., [4] pl. ; 14.3 cm. (18º)
First published in 1728. The additional engraved title-page by Richard Corbauld, reading 'Rowe's Letters, forming part of Cooke's Pocket Edition of Sacred Classics, ...' is dated 1800; the other plates are dated 1796 and 1797. Reissue of the [1797?] edition (ESTC t134488). The publisher Charles Cooke extended the formula of illustrated pocket editions previously used by John Bell in his Poets of Great Britain series (109 vols, 1776--82) to publish series of uniform pocket editions in other genres such as 'British Classics', 'Sacred Classics', novels and plays, all 'Superbly Embellished'.
Copy Notes Bound as issued with a 12-pp. 'Plan And Catalogue of Cooke's ... Pocket Library' (q.v.).
Binding Contemporary early C19th tree calf, gilt-tooled spine, black and red leather spine-labels. Uniform with other volumes of Cooke's Pocket Editions in the Soane Museum.
Reference Number 1086