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[Frontispiece to] Elegy; written at Amwell in Hertfordshire, MDCCLXVIII.

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Resource ID

15677

Access

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Title

[Frontispiece to] Elegy; written at Amwell in Hertfordshire, MDCCLXVIII.

Date of Original

1795

Special Collection

Bentley-Blake Collection

Creator

Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807, engraver

Format

1 leaf : illustration ; 21 x 12 cm

Storage Location

Rare Books

Notes

Plate opposite page 51: Scott, John, 1730-1783. The poetical works of John Scott Esq. The second edition. London : Printed for Alexander Cleugh and John Dolfee, 1795.

Size of image: 8 x 11 cm

A reissue, with a printed title-page (without portrait) substituted for the engraved one, of the 1786 edition printed for J. Buckland.

Of the 9 plates 2 have been engraved by William Blake after designs by Stothard. Two other illustrations have also been engraved by Blake from Stothard designs.

Illustration signed: J.C. invt.

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