Fine Books and Manuscripts

8vo (227 x 138 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Some spotting to frontispiece and a few leaves.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, wide filigree gilt border surrounding blind foliate roll-tool border, spine in 7 compartments with 6 raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, the rest with ornamental decoration gilt, board edges gilt, turn-ins gilt, edges gilt concealing a DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING of scenes at Oxford STAMP-SIGNED ON BOARD EDGES BY TAYLOR AND HESSEY (some very light scuffing or rubbing, otherwise bright). Young wrote his Night Thoughts after the death of his wife, and his work was frequently chosen to be finely bound and presented to a special family member or friend.