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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
Lot 194

GRAY (THOMAS)
Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, Printed at Strawberry-Hill, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 (2)

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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GRAY (THOMAS)

Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, second or third issue, half-title ("Designs, &c."), printed on rectos only, engraved title-vignette, 6 plates, head- & tail-pieces and initials, 4pp. 'Explanation of the Prints' by Horace Walpole bound at end, occasional light spotting, short tear to margin of one plate, dark green straight-grained morocco gilt by Clarke & Bedford, spine elaborately tooled within compartments, g.e., slightly rubbed at extremities [Rothschild 1061], folio (380 x 265mm.), R. Dodsley, 1753; Odes, FIRST EDITION, half-title, engraved vignette on title, contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked [Hazen 1; Rothschild 1067], 4to, Printed at Strawberry-Hill, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 (2)

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