Item #72549 Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day, to Wit, Bernard de Mandeville, Daniel Bartoli, Christopher Smart, George Bubb Dodington, Francis Furini, Gerard de Lairesse, and Charles Avison. Introduced by a Dialogue Between Apollo and the Fates; Concluded by Another Between John Fust and his Friends. Robert BROWNING.
Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day, to Wit, Bernard de Mandeville, Daniel Bartoli, Christopher Smart, George Bubb Dodington, Francis Furini, Gerard de Lairesse, and Charles Avison. Introduced by a Dialogue Between Apollo and the Fates; Concluded by Another Between John Fust and his Friends.

Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day, to Wit, Bernard de Mandeville, Daniel Bartoli, Christopher Smart, George Bubb Dodington, Francis Furini, Gerard de Lairesse, and Charles Avison. Introduced by a Dialogue Between Apollo and the Fates; Concluded by Another Between John Fust and his Friends.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1887. [Poetry] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 188; 14 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth, upper board and spine ruled in gilt and black. Gilt titles to spine. Advertisements to rear. Brown endpapers. Top edge gilt. Internally bright and clean. Ownership inscription in black ink to half-title, dated 1887. Small bookseller's label and relevant news clipping pasted to front flyleaf. Bookplate of Edith Agnes Salter to front pastedown. A bit of rubbing and edgewear to boards. Near fine. Fictional poetic dialogues between Browning and a handful of famous historical thinkers. Item #72549

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