Horae Lyricae. Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric kind. In Two Books. I. Songs, &c., Sacred to Devotion. II. Odes, Elegys, &c. to Vertue, Loyalty and Friendhsip

Watts (Isaac).    S. and D. Bridge for John Lawrence,  1706 First Edition Ruled in red throughout   Contemporary panelled calf, sometime rebacked preserving original spine, spine in compartments ruled and lettered in gilt with red morocco label gilt, new end-papers Some foxing and soiling and marginal tears and minor repairs, A4-5 remargined without loss of text, one catchword shaved, R5 misbound before R4, but a very good copy  Loosely inserted is a news cutting marking the bicentenary of the author’s death in 1748, describing him as “a great hymn writer” of considerable influence. 

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