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Published by James Parsons, London:, 1767
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG+, 1st ed, 1767, 3 pls (including the Names table). In modern half green calf over green marbled boards (by Paul Delrue). Spine, raised bands, gilt titles to red & green calf labels. Internally, [3], (iv-xxxii), 275, 268-269, 278-279, 272-419 pp (odd pagination but correct), 3 pls (folding), new endpapers, text block edges reddened, occasional light edge browning, some light water staining affecting the last pl (see image and a few other base margins. Lovely binding! (201*263 mm). (Alston, III.836. ESTC T149594. Sabin 58886). Parsons, physician and antiquary, along with a paper in Philosophical Transactions on the comte de Caylus's method of imitating ancient painting in burnt wax, his last published work is representative of his antiquarian interests. It is entitled The Remains of Japhet (1767) and he used it to attempt to show that the source of many of the European tongues was originally Irish and Welsh?languages he had learned as a boy. See ODNB.