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The Gentle Shepherd: A Scots Pastoral Comedy

 
The Gentle Shepherd: A Scots Pastoral Comedy by Allan Ramsay, Charles Robert Ashbee, Janet Ashbee (1797)
Author: Allan Ramsay, Charles Robert Ashbee, Janet Ashbee
Title: The Gentle Shepherd: A Scots Pastoral Comedy by Allan Ramsay. With an Account of His Life and Writings, &c. and a Glossary
 
Year: 1797
Publisher: R Chapman for Stewart and Meikle
Place: Glasgow
Dust Jacket: No
Signed: Yes
 
Price: £85
 
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[frontispiece] [3] pp 4-32; [1] pp 2-123 [124] The Gentle Shepherd given by the wife of the Arts and Crafts designer as a gift to C R Ashbee, her husband. Inscribed on the endpaper by Janet Ashbee, \'C.R.A. from J.E.A. 8 Sept 1929\'. The book also has the Ashbees\' circular red morocco book label on the front paste-down. The binding is in attractive quarter red morocco over cloth boards. There is staining to the first few pages and the frontispiece is nearly detached. On the title page is an earlier ownership signature of Anastasia Gascoigne, second wife of the industrialist Charles Gascoigne. An interesting association copy.
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