Death's Doings; Consisting Of Numerous Original Compositions In Prose And Verse, The Friendly Contributions Of Various Writers; Principally Intended As Illustrations Of Twenty Four Plates, Designed And Etched By R. Dagley. Volumes I & Ii Dagley, Richard Poetry

8vo. Two volumes bound in one with continuous pagination but separate titles. Second edition, with considerable additions. Full burgundy cloth. xvi, 6, 466 pp., [30] plates including frontis. Light rubbing to extremities of boards. Binding tight. Foxing and some staining to interior, commensurate with age. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar to front pastedown. Richard Dagley [1761-1841] was an English painter, illustrator, and art critic. His works appeared in the Royal Academy, and he published criticism in the Literary Gazette. Dagley's illustrations on Death are interpreted into verse and stories from various writers.