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Contemporary full calf, front board and first 3 leaves, including 2 blanks and the frontis, detached. Edges worn. [8], 140, [4], pp. with an engraved frontispiece of 'The East View of Windsor Castle' by R. Benning, and three other plates, one folding; two final advertisement leaves, plus several woodcuts in the text. First edition of a much-reprinted pocket companion to Windsor 'for the use of Strangers, and other Persons, who visit this our Royal Castle'. It is 'for the most part an Extract from a larger Work publish'd in Quarto a few Years since' (The History and Antiquities of Windsor Castle, 1749). Pote, publisher, stationer and master of an Eton boys' boarding house, was also known to Eton students as a bookseller: 'Jos[eph] Pote of Eton, a man of great renown, / Buys a book for sixpence, and sells it for a crown' (quoted in Oxford DNB). His son Thomas followed him into the publishing business. Seller Inventory # b00582
Bibliographic Details
Title: Les Delices de Windsore, or a Description of...
Publisher: Eton, Eton
Publication Date: 1755
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