The Messiah. Attempted from the German The fourth Edition.. This item is unavailable.The Messiah. Attempted from the German The fourth Edition.

Fourth edition, scarce, published the same year as the third (also by Collyer, Dodsley, and Newbery, but in two volumes), the first appearance of the final volume, containing Books XI XV. Roscoe A284(3); this edition not in Morgan (cf. 5046 for the first two volumes). ESTC locates 5 copies only (BL (2 copies), Derry & Raphoe Diocesan Library, Oberlin College, UC Berkeley). 3 vols, 12mo (162 × 98 mm), pp. xlviii, 240; 287, [1]; 311, [1]; with an engraved title and frontispiece (two signed Collyer) in each vol.; some light foxing at the beginning and the end, and to the endpapers, of each vol.; contemporary calf, joints cracked but firm, headcaps chipped, spines a little cracked, gilt morocco lettering-pieces; armorial bookplate of William Orme Foster (1814 1899; industrialist and MP), later label of Robert J. Hayhurst in vol. I.