life and posthumous writings of William Cowper,Esqr.
Subtitle: with an introductory letter to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper
By: by William Hayley, Esqr.
Contributors: Cowper, William, 1731-1800.; Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Series: Blake -- no. 731
Publisher: Printed by J. Seagrave; for J. Johnson ..., London
Published: 1803
Place of publication: Chichester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
Subjects: Cowper, William, -- 1731-1800.
Other titles: Life of Cowper
Notes: The five plates and the illustration on p. 415 of vol. II, were engraved by William Blake.

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, 468A

Cf. Bentley, G.E., Blake books, 727

Gift to Victoria University Library (copies 1-3). Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library copy 1 lacks v. 2, p. 415-416, which includes one of Blake's illustrations.

Victoria University Library copy 3 is extra-illustrated with many more plates, including the Storer & Greig plates for their Cowper (1803), the text of which is bound at the end of vol. III; many other illustrations cut from various other works published around the same time are pasted on leaves of stiff paper with inset borders and interspersed throughout the three volumes; individual plates from various other works are bound throughout the three volumes.

Victoria University Library copy 3 is bound with: Brayley, E. W.  Cowper, illustrated by a series of views, in, or near, the park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks.  London : Vernor and Hood, 1803; Hayley, William.  Supplementary pages to the Life of Cowper.  Chichester : Printed by J. Seagrave, 1806.

Victoria University Library copy 3 has final Blake plate bound in at front of vol. III.

Victoria University Library copy 3 has bookplate of Miss Rigden.