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VOLUME ONE ONLY. RARE poetry book by an eminent 18th-century English poet and satirist Charles Churchill (1732-1764), appended by the author`s memoirs. [CONTENTS]: The Life of the Author. The Rosciad. The Apology Adress`d to the Critical Reviewers. Night. An Epistle to Robert Lloyd. The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral Inscribed to John Wilkes, Esq. An Epistle to William Hogarth. The Ghost: Book the First, Book the Second, Book the Third, Book the Fourth. 165x105mm. XVI+292 pages. Brown leather Hardcover with gilt spine. Cover and spine stained heavily rubbed and scratched. Cover corners and edges bumped and peeling. Sticker residues on front cover fore edge. Front cover detached. Rear cover almost detached. Spine gilt and edges peeling. Spine bottom part slightly cracked. Inner cover and pages age-stained. Ex-libris cut out of front inner cover. Ink inscription and previous owner`s stamp on front whitepage. Previous owner`s name written on title-page. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.