BINDING, WITH A DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING - William SOMERVILLE (1675-1742). The Chace, London,1796, 8vo, 6 plates, contemporary scarlet straight-grained morocco, with a DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF HUNTING SCENES.

BINDING, WITH A DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING - William SOMERVILLE (1675-1742).  The Chace, A Poem ... A New Edition. To Which is Prefixed a Critical Essay, by J. Aikin, M.D. London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1796. Small 8vo (160 x 98mm). Half title, 6 engraved plates by Gerard Jean-Baptiste Scotin after Thomas Stothard, woodcut ornament at the end, one-page of publisher's advertisements. Attractively bound in contemporary scarlet straight-grained morocco gilt, gilt edges, with a DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF TWO HUNTING SCENES. Provenance: Samuel Francis Delap (armorial bookplate). Foxon S-562; Hayward 158; Lowndes 244; Podeschi 73; Rothschild 1932; Schwerdt II, 166 (the references citing the first edition of 1735).