The Pleasures of the Imagination

Item author: Mark Akenside
Item date: 1758
(this is an approximate date)
Grant Value: 40
Item cost pre-decimal: Not recorded
Item date acquired: 1960
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Bound by Richard Montague for Thomas Hollis in gold-tooled green morocco with doublures of mottled calf. No other example of these bindings, which Hollis had put on books he presented to foreign libraries, is known in Britain. 40 was given by Arthur Gimson towards the purchase of the book