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It Was Like This. Two Stories of the Great War. With Drawings by Lyle Justis

(Mills, Andrew Hervey).Biblio.com

BAGATELLES. In this collection is reprinted the fragment: or Allen and Ella. Which unknown to the author appeared some years since under the title of Collin and Lucy. To which is subjoined a journey to and description of the Paraclete near the city of Troyes in Champagne where Abelard and Eloïsa were buried. All by the same hand.

176701AIR2150.Front board detached has plate of Boyd's Circulating Library Dumfries pasted in with an inscription underneath see below followed by half-title with price 3s. torn in margin then frontispiece plan of the Paraclete facing recto page headed 'Explanation of the plan of the Paraclete' and before the title page which itself is followed by the Dedication to Peter Vallete Esq.; Kingston on Thames dated July 10 1767 i - vi; 'To the reader' i - ii and finally p.1 the text headed 'BAGATELLES' with sub-heading 'The lover and the friend.' Pages 205- 226 is 'A description of the Paraclete agreeable to the plan laid down in our frontispiece.' Appears to be complete apart from verse IV of Elegy p. 72 which has been cut out. Marbling rubbed edge-wear includes corners worn to board closed page edges tanned some foxing of text. Inscription reads: 'I have reason to think that Burns our Poet read this book while in the Library at Dumfries - see p. 130 where are passages imitated in his Epistle to Capt. Grose and in Tam O-Shanter.' Inside lower board loose but attached in contemporary writing is what may be a quotation: 'To be dull is damnation and so alone without books pen or paper is worse than Hell.' Image 2: Label; Image 3: Half-title; Image 4: Plan; Image 5: Title page; Image 6: Inscription inside lower board. A copy of the first edition with the additional interest of contemporary notes inside boards. Printed for Messrs. Walkingame, in St. Martin's Lane; Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Robson, Bond-Street; Davis, Piccadilly; Walter, Charin hardcover

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