Author: Bürgher, Gottfried Augustus.
Title: LEONORA. Translated from The German of ... by W.R. Spencer, Esq. With Designs by The Right Honourable Lady Diana Beauclerc.
Description: London: Printed by T. Bensley ..., 1796. 1st Ed. in English. 4to. 5 plates, vignettes. Some light browning, inscription, marbled e.ps., inner gilt dentelles, contemporary calf, gilt fillet edges, joints cracked with upper board detached, dec. gilt motifs to spine with loss, loss to corners. ¶ ESTC T93829 ‘Parallel German and English texts. Engravings by Bartolozzi, Harding and Birrell.’ Three by Harding, one by Bartolozzi and one by Birrell. ODNB ‘... In 1796 he published a translation of Bürger's Leonore, which was highly thought of by Scott and others ...’

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