Dialogues of the Dead. The Second Edition.
by [LYTTELTON (George), Lord and MONTAGU (Elizabeth)]
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About This Item
London: Printed for W. Sandby..., 1760. 8vo, 197 x 116 mms., pp. xii, 320 [321 Errata, 322 blank], many leaves foxed or slightly soiled, bound in revolting 19th century plum calf, hard morocco boards, with spine worn and wormed, but happily with the autograph of the painter Allan Ramsay (1713 - 1784) on the top margin of the title-page, with Lyttelton's authorship inscribed in a contemporary hand below the title, "By ye right Honble Lord Littleton"; and on the front paste-down end-paper, the bookplate of the "Dundee Free Libary," printed on pink paper, which flourish in the mid 19th century. Finally, on page 273, the first page of Dialogue XXV is a note in a contemporary hand concerning Archibald, Earl of Douglas, Duke of Touraine, one of the two interlocutors of that dialogue. politics Writing to Horace Mann on 24 May 1760, Horace Walpole said of this work that is was "paltry enough; the style, a mixture of bombast, poetry and vulgarisms. Nothing new in the composition, except making people talk out of character is so." Elizabeth Montagu wrote three of the dialogues, numbers 27 - 28. Ramsay painted Montagu in 1762, two years after Dialogues of the Dead was published. The autograph of Allan Ramsay is very similar to one that I have in my possession, and I am confident that the volume once belonged to him before it was acquired - and rebound - by the Dundee Free Library.
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- John Price Antiquarian Books
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- Title
- Dialogues of the Dead. The Second Edition.
- Author
- [LYTTELTON (George), Lord and MONTAGU (Elizabeth)]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed for W. Sandby..., 1760
- Keywords
- politics association copy prose
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- politics;
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