THE TASK: A Poem

By William Cowper

Description:
Albany: B.D. Packard 1810. 193p
Bound in full contemporary leather. A hardcover book in fair condition. Ex-library: label on spine; pocket on endpaper; stamp on title page. Previous owner's name on title page; extensive pencil scribblings throughout. Some pages are torn but text intact. Back 40 pages have bottom right corner clipped. Pages foxed. Text includes a Short Account of the Life and Writings of the Author.
This is an early American printing; the first American edition was done in 1787.

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