Lot 162: DENNIS, JOHN.

The Battle of Ramillia: or, the Power of Union. A Poem. In Five Books. For Ben. Bragg, 1706

8vo, first edition, title within double-ruled border, errata-slip pasted on verso of last leaf, contemporary black morocco elaborately tooled in gilt, the covers with roll-tooled border enclosing a cottage-roof design formed with a dotted roll and double fillet broken by geometric lobes at the sides, with centre-piece of four linking double-circles, all surrounded by floral volutes, the spaces tooled with flowers and stars, spine in six compartments, each with geometric floral ornament, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, lacking blank a6, slight browning and soiling, binding very slightly rubbed

Foxon D220

Col. J.F. Williams-Wynne of Peniarth (sale at Sotheby's, 3 April 1979, lot 104, £520, to Quaritch) and bookplate; Henry Walsh, contemporary ownership inscription on title

a very good copy in a fine and elaborate contemporary binding

Brett-Smith's notes on the front free endpaper, dated April 1979, state that the Robert H. Taylor Collection at Princeton "has the dedication copy in red morocco by the same binder. The design is identical in general terms, but the details differ and while most tools are used in both bindings, a few are used in either one or the other only."