Specimen of an Etimological Vocabulary, or, Essay, by means of the Analitic Method, to Retrieve the Antient Celtic

First edition. Octavo. xvi, 231, [1]pp., with a publisher’s advertisement on the final page. Early nineteenth century half calf and marbled paper over boards, gilt spine with red leather titling label, laid paper endleaves. Armorial bookplate of Charles Joseph Harford, F.A.S. on front pastedown. A few manuscript notes in light pencil on the free endpapers and occasional marginalia in pencil, presumably in the hand of Charles Harford (1764-1830), a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Justice of the Peace. A later philological work by John Cleland, best known for his erotic novel: *Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure* (popularly known as *Fanny Hill*), which got him arrested in November 1749. *Alston* V, 363-364.