Meditations among the tombs : in a letter to a lady

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Title: Meditations among the tombs : in a letter to a lady
Alternative Title: Reflections on a flower-garden in a letter to a lady
Creator: Hervey, James, 1714-1758, author
Contributor: John and James Rivington (Firm), publisher.
Leake, James, -1764, publisher.
Published / Created: MDCCXLVI [1746]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Printed for J. and J. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-yard; and J. Leake, at Bath
Description: In two parts, with separate titlepages, pagination and register.
The second part is entitled 'Reflections on a flower-garden in a letter to a lady'.
Each part has a final leaf of errata.
Tipped in: Two small engravings of Hervey from Cooke's Classics.
Tipped in: Two drawings. A wash drawing with pen and ink of a memorial to Anne Stonhouse; a pen and ink frontispiece with caption title: "He gave himself a ransom for all".
With clipping (19th century) and unidentified ms. notes.
Provenance: Chaucer Head; January 1946; James Hervey's copy of the first edition with extensive manuscript corrections, annotations, and additions for the third edition, with many addition on additonal leaves bound in.
Extent: [2], viii, 86, [2] ; [2], 122, [2] pages ; 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English