Shelfmark
Ie9.1.01
Author
Uniform title
[Complaint, or night-thoughts]
Title
The complaint, and the consolation; or, night thoughts, by Edward Young, LL.D.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed by R. Noble, for R. Edwards, No. 142, Bond-Street, M DCC XCVII. [1797]
Physical description
viii, 95, [3] p. : ill. ; 43 cm. (Fol.)
Note
Includes "Explanation of the engravings" at the end of the volume.
Note
Edited by R. Edwards.
Note
43 full-page engravings by William Blake.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T20820
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn. : Primary Source Media, an imprint of Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, 2009. 1 reel ; 35 mm. Unit 499 (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 17434, no. 06).
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Major General Villiers Hatton on upper pastedown. Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library, dated 1991, with typed ex dono of Major General Villiers Hatton on front flyleaf.
Binding
18th-century black leather over ?millboards. Covers decorated with gilt fillets to form concentric panels with tools at the inner and outer corners; gilt centrepiece; gilt dotted roll on board edges; floral gilt roll on turn-ins. Spine rounded, decortaed with gilt fillets, tools and titling ("Young's Night Thoughts" ; "Blake"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of undecorated paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Bookseller ms. notes in pencil on front flyleaf.
Subject
English poetry 18th century.
Added entry--name
Blake, William, 1757 - 1827 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 Major General, former owner.
Added entry--name
Edwards, Richard, 1768 - 1827 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Noble, Robert, ? - active 1800 printer.
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B22377