Lot 33
£756
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
London: printed for the author, 1747. Second edition, 8vo (18.4 x 11.5cm), 19th-century dark red half calf, [2] iv [28] 330 pp., binding rubbed, light even browning, title-page more heavily browned, slightly soiled and with small hole costing a few letters, newspaper cutting mounted on rear blank offset onto final page [ESTC T69536; Maclean p. 59]
Note: A rare complete copy of the second edition, the same year as the first, which was in folio format. ESTC traces eight copies in libraries world-wide, and the list of subscribers records some 280 names, most of them women.