The Beauties of History; Or, Pictures of Virtue and Vice, Drawn from Real Life; Designed For the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth. The Third Edition.
by STRETCH (Liscombe Maltbee):
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry. 1777. 2 volumes. 12mo, 165 x 93 mms., xxiv, 354 [355 - 360 adverts]; xi [xii blank], 312, including half-title in volume 1 engraved frontispiece in volume one, later half calf, marbled boards, spine richly gilt with titles in gilt; some slight soiling and intermittenit staining of text, but a very good set. First published in 1770, Stretch revised the work for its 7th edition, with a new dedication to Richard Farmer, the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. ESTC T211733 locates copies in BL, Bodleian; National Library of Wales; Princeton, Society of the Cincinnati; University of South Australia (2).
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- Bookseller
- John Price Antiquarian Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10112
- Title
- The Beauties of History; Or, Pictures of Virtue and Vice, Drawn from Real Life; Designed For the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth. The Third Edition.
- Author
- STRETCH (Liscombe Maltbee):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry. 1777
- Keywords
- anthropology
- Bookseller catalogs
- anthropology;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
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- Marbled boards
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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