Haslewood Books - The Poems of William Collins. Edited with an introductory study by Edmund Blunden.

The Poems of William Collins. Edited with an introductory study by Edmund Blunden. 8vo, viIi, 179 pages, 1 leaf frontispiece (portrait), 24cm, London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1929.

Set in Baskerville and printed at the Chiswick Press. One of 50 (550) copies (this not numbered, being Hugh Macdonald's copy) signed by Edmund Blunden, printed on Van Gelder's Japon paper. Frontispiece drawing of William Collins after a John Flaxman engraving. Grey paper-covered sides stammped in gilt, red moroco back (slightly faded) titled in gilt. A very good bright copy. (Tucker 25)

A study of William Collins; Persian eclogues; Verses humbly address'd to Sir Thomas Hanmer on his edition of Shakespear's works; Odes on several descriptive and allegoric subjects; Ode on the death of Mr. Thomson; Ode on the popular superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland; Minor pieces; Poems of doubtful authenticity.