Author: Fraser, William] (editor, signs preface "W.F.")
Title: THE BIJOU; An Annual of Literature and the Arts.
Description: London, William Pickering [Thomas White, printer, Johnson's Court] 1828 but no date given Plates (frontis + 8 of 9 other full-page called for + titlepage vignette + headpieces) by Sir Thomas Lawrence, David Wilkie, T. Stothard, W.H. Worthington, Richard W. Small octavo damasked black roan with part of gilt title remaining to spine (spine missing about half but laid onto leather repair) All Edges Gilt xiv +335pp +[1]p printer's colophon. Front inner hinge only loosely held & lacks a few tissue guards but clean and tight. Contributors include Sir Walter Scott, Charles Lamb, Samuel T. Coleridge, Mrs. Hemans and many other leading lights of the time. The illustration list calls for 5 headpieces but only two are printed, space for the others is left blank. *A short-lived annual, this is the undated version of the first annual volume - its Preface and contents are nearly identical to the version dated 1828, but it has 335 pages (not 319), a few headpieces not printed and one plate (The Oriental Love-Letter) here missing. The plates and other "Embellishments" are beautifully printed in fine detail.

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