8vo, later red straight-grained morocco, lavish gilt decorations and lettering to boards and spine, all edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Later edition. Also bound in are two pages of instructions for placing the drawings. Edges rubbed; else, a very good copy. **Many coloured initial letters, chapter headers, and tailpieces throughout.** MS initials and date to a prelim. Coloured plates in order: 1. The Church. 2. You enter'd a long avenue of trees. 3. I found you in a clear moon-light night sitting in a pensive posture by the side of a fountain. 4. Chance in a luckless hour led you to a verdant shade where you found her. 5. Scull --To the complexion thou must come at last. 6. A Medley of images. Letters [both] Moral and Entertaining, part first. 7. It is here I have recovered my peace. 8. Alone thro' unfrequented shades I rove. 9. I ask not princely bowers or artful walks. 10. I spoke to her before she saw me. 11. Scroll -- Letters to Cleora were written from Mrs. Rowe to the Duchess of Somerset. 12. Scroll -- Letters to the Author were written from the Duchess of Somerset to Mrs. Rowe. 13. It was full of woods and watered with a large river. 14. Here I had the pleasure to observe the Spring of the River. 15. A Medley of letters of [both] Moral and Entertaining, part second. 16. Peace dwell upon your banks ye silver streams. 17. A vaulted rock for her retreat she chose. 18. A little retirement at the foot of a hill a few miles from my house. 19. Perhaps the gay world will pity me. 20. He conducted me to a fair summer-house. 21. And invited me to rest myself after my walk. 22. But Calais from the Kentish strand is seen.