DEATH'S DOINGS: CONSISTING OF NUMEROUS ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, IN VERSE AND PROSE, THE FRIENDLY CONTRIBUTIONS OF VARIOUS WRITERS: PRINCIPALLY INTENDED AS ILLUSTRATIONS OF THIRTY COPPER-PLATES, DESIGNED AND ETCHED BY R. DAGLEY ... From the Second London Edition, with Considerable Additions. Boston: Charles Ewer, No. 141, Washington Street. Dutton and Wentworth-Printers, 1828. Octavo, two volumes: pp. [ix-xiii] xiv-xv [xvi-xvii] xviii-xx [xxi] xxii [xxiii-xxiv] [1] 2-6 [7-8] [1] 2-232; 233-472, engraved title leaf and 30 engraved plates inserted, later nineteenth-century binding of quarter suede and drab boards, red and black leather spine labels, all edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. The first edition was published in London in 1826, the second, enlarged edition (from which this American edition was prepared) was published in London in 1827. Dunninger bookplate affixed to each front paste-down. Leather a bit scuffed, front wrappers of both volumes laid in, considerable foxing to text leaves and plates, a good, sound copy. (#173050).
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