Anecdotes, &c. - Antient & Modern - With Observations (A New Edition, Corrected and Much Enlarged)

A NEW EDITION, CORRECTED & MUCH ENLARGED (the first edition was published one year earlier in 1789). This new corrected & enlarged edition of Andrews' Anecdotes includes a 106-page Addenda at rear, with its own separate index. Also includes errata page at rear. With appendix, plus index. FINE BINDING. Bound in London by the renowned bindery of SANGORSKY & SUTCLIFFE in half-leather & marbled boards, raised bands, gilt lettering to spine. Alphabetical sections containing contemporary anecdotes on a wide variety of subjects, including alchymy, animals, art, books, coaches, conjugal infidelity, customs and inventions, family, fanaticism, feasting, free-thinking, gaming, heraldry, hermits, inhumanity, laws, lazy monks, liberty, medicine, natural enemies, parliament, passions, plays and novels, poetry, pride, religion, romance, scandal, superstition, suspicion, taste, tyranny, vanity, virtue and vice, wealth, whims, & women, amongst several other sections. James Pettit Andrews (c.1737-1797) was an English historian and antiquary. Lacks frontispiece portrait & Stockdale's catalogue at rear, blank indentation through middle of several preliminary pages, closed tear to page 13/14, otherwise an exceptionally nice clean tight solid leatherbound copy. xvi (preface + contents) + 470pp + xvi (index) + 106pp (addenda) + v (index to the addenda) + 1pp (errata). Scarce. …