Book Description

The Art of Poetry is laid out such that one sees on verso the Latin verse and an English narrative translation and with Bagot's poetic setting on verso.
Dealer Notes
The Very Reverend Daniel Bagot was Chaplain to the Lords - Lieutenant of Ireland.
This presentation copy was offered to William Cavendish, Seventh Duke of Duke of Devonshire with the letter attached:
Dean Bagot begs to present a copy of his ? of the Ars Poetica to His Grace The Duke of Devonshire, with his dutiful respects.
Buxton 23 Sept. 1881
Author Very Rev. Daniel Bagot
Date 1880
Binding Publisher's Mauve Cloth
Publisher Blackwood
Condition Very good. Dulling to boards, sunning to spine, lightly foxed endpapers, uncut pages many of which are unopened, weakening to opening hinge.
Pages [2] 86

Price: £50.00

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