Author: TAYLOR (C.), publisher.
Title: The Cabinet of Genius containing Frontispieces and Characters adapted to the most Popular Poems, &c. with the Poems & C. at Large.
Description: London, Printed for C. Taylor, No. 10, near Castle Street, Holborn 1787. 4to, 198 x 158, a nonce collection in two volumes of poems with an engraving for each, bound in contemporary straight grain green morocco, gilt rule on borders, red leather labels, with general title-page tipped to a stub in volume 1; front hinge volume 2 repaired with tape. With a contents leaf at end of volume for volume 2, and an preface for the two volumes in volume 2. 39 engraved plates in volume 1, and 57 in volume 2. As ESTC notes, "On the verso of the contents list: "Gentlemen may bind any numbers together to make a volume, and in any order they please", which indicates the variety and strangeness possible in any copy. Match to these records by date of titlepage and add copy notes as appropriate."

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