Ambrose Philips Poetical Works Book 1781 Brown Fair Antique Leather 18thC For Sale

The front cover is barely attached to the spine. The book is very delicate
The Poetical Works of Ambrose Philips, published in 1781 by the Apollo Press in Edinburgh as part of \"The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill.\" This antique volume includes a life of the author, epistles, songs, epigrams, and translations of Pindar, Anacreon, and Sappho. The book features a decorative engraved frontispiece and title page, housed in a period leather binding with marbled boards and gilt detailing on the spine. A significant piece of 18th-century literary history, it showcases the typography and printing style of the Martins at the Apollo Press. The binding shows heavy wear with a detached front board and significant scuffing to the leather.