MARTIAL.. Select Epigrams of Martial. Translated and Imitated by William Hay, Esq; with an Appendix of some by Cowley, and other Hands.1755

London: London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-mall, 12mo (170 x 100 mm), [4], v, [3], 139 [i.e.239], [25]pp., presentation copy and a relevant autograph letter, both from Edmund Blunden, presentation inscription in pencil on fly-leaf "Douglas Grant from Edmund Blunden. Christmas 1952." and another note in pencil from Blunden "a Sussex poet and one of Charles Lamb's out-of-the-way authors." parallel Latin and English texts, another Blunden note in the text, with 2 advertisement leaves at the end, contemporary calf, worn, covers almost detached. Tipped in is a letter relevant to this book "T.L.S. London E.C.4. 4 Decr. 1952. My dear Douglas We lack news of you, and I am too feeble or idle to write a letter. If you have Will. Hay's Imitations, the copy could perhaps serve as a swop with someone. There is an imperfect copy of one of your Duchess's [i.e. Duchess of Newcastle] Works in a recent catalogue from Dobell of Tunbridge Wells..... The T.L.S. slumps along, partly in near - English.... [signed] Edmund." Provenance: With the armorial bookplate of John Mervin Prower.