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London: Printed for the author, 1773. Second edition, "corrected and enlarged". Folio, pp iv, ii, 716, with an engraved frontispiece, 60 engraved plates + plates 66 - 80 in the appendix (i.e. LACKING five plates in the appendix), some age-toning internally, the odd blemish here and there, the frontispiece with two earlier minor repairs, a partly unpressed copy which has resulted in a horizontal crease to the last sixty pages or so (see illustration) and a slight depression to earlier ones, bound in a recent half calf with very slight signs of use, with marbled endpapers. Plate 31 is bound slightly out of order, and plate 59 has a small ink scribble in the margin and has the plate number corrected in ink. [Blanche Henrey 805, mentioning a portrait as well as an allegorical frontispiece; the portrait is not present in our copy. Sir John Hill was an English composer, actor, author and botanist. He contributed to contemporary periodicals and engaged in literary battles with poets, playwrights… Read More

London: Printed for the Author, 1773.. Second edition, "corrected and enlarged". Folio. (ii), iv, ii, 716 pp. Later tan half calf over early worn boards, gilt lettered green spine label, marbled endpapers, old inscriptions inked out to the verso of the front free endpaper, two old pieces of paper affixed adjacent to this, one of which is a newspaper cutting. Frontispiece with later, slightly naive, handcolouring plus 80 plates featuring fine contemporary handcolouring, plate 29 supplied from another copy with old colouring executed to a similarly high standard. Slight fading to the spine, plate 8 torn to the lower corner with slight loss to the text but not the illustration, occasional minor marking, generally a very good copy of a magnificent work. Henrey, volume II, p.95-98. First published in 1757 with sixty plates, this edition benefits from the inclusion of a further 20 plates. Usually found with black and white plates - coloured copies are much scarcer on the market.