J. Wright

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  • GLORIOUS MID VICTORIAN FULL STRAIGHT GRAIN MOROCCO
    Night Thoughts. by YOUNG, Edward
    YOUNG, Edward
    Night Thoughts.

    Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1853. Full morocco, 8 1/2 inches tall. A truly superb binding in full straight grain morocco by J. Wright, a bookbinder "of the highest order" (Ramsden). With gilt raised bands and glorious gilt tooling to the panels and boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. Young's 'Night-Thoughts' was one of the most popular poems of the century, influencing Goethe and Edmund Burke, among many others, with its notable illustrations by William Blake.

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