Language: English
Published by H Trapp (Printer and Seller), 1788
Seller: Joy Norfolk, Deez Books, IPSWICH, United Kingdom
US$ 69.28
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHalf-Leather. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as published). 592pp. Insights to various religious works from the 18th century. The front board is close to being detached, the hinge has failed. The front free end paper is missing. The top of prelim. page i & ii has been torn away. From there in the text block is sound. non-UK customer please order with the fast / air shipping service only. All orders processed promptly. Please email with any queries. 5.5"x8.5".
Published by L.B. Seeley. 1820, 1820
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
US$ 182.89
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Add to basketEngr. font port. Contemp. full diced calf, spine ruled & with devices in gilt, green morocco labels a little chipped; corners rubbed, small dent on following board. Inscribed on the leading f.e.p. to Mr. de Micose [?], 'the gift of his aff.te aunt E.th Turner, 1820'. First published in 1818 under the title The King, and revised for this second edition. The first few gatherings have been misbound, and instructions to the reader have been added in the margins in a contemp. hand. Also in a contemp. hand, on the recto of the frontispiece, a brief estimation of the late king: 'George the Third / Born & bred a Briton / Endeared to a brave, free, & loyal people / By his public virtues / By his pre-eminent example / of private worth, in all the relations of domestic life / by his uniform course of unaffected piety / and entire submission to the Will of Heaven'. The contents of the work is similarly reverent.