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London: William Pickering, 1847. First thus. Leather rubbed, rebound with original boards with some loss to leather. Internally contents are very good with previous owner's name on half title. Overall good plus.. First Pickering edition of these popular 17th century English devotional works, featuring a detailed examination of the ways which lead to a charitable and pure Christian life. A visually appealing volume printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press with engraved frontispiece, woodcut initial letters, and the use of an old face font which Whittingham introduced in 1843. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, xvi, 424pp.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846. Fair only in nineteenth century brown half calf, with front board detached, leather dry and flaking, spine strip almost detached, rebound likely for Adams, the lettering on the spine reads "From Thackeray's Library", in a very good clamshell box with gilt-lettered spine. In a near-contemporary hand someone has neatly written in ink around Thackeray's stamp on the title page: "The crest and monogram of William Makepeace Thackeray. This having been one of his books.. William Makepeace Thackeray's copy with his blindstamped monogram to the title page. Later this was the property of Charles Francis Adams (junior or senior is unclear, being either the son or grandson of John Quincy Adams), with his bookplate on the front pastedown. 8vo. vii, 536pp.

Edinburgh: Printed for J. Dick, 1814. Very good in modern quarter leather. Prior owner bookplate to pastedown, contemporary owner name on title page, edges uncut/torn but in a few places too much so but not affecting text.. Scarce Edinburgh printing of Thomson's perennial work. The engraved frontispiece and engraved title must have been created hastily as both Thomson's and Johnson's names are spelled incorrectly - "The seasons, by James Thompson [sic] With the Life of the Author by Dr. Samuel Johnston [sic]." 12mo. [7], xxiii, 298pp. Worldcat locates 3 copies as of August 2020.

[London:]: Printed for and published by the Rev. J. Trusler, and sold at the Literary-Press, 1790. First edition. With fifty woodcuts by John Bewick, younger brother of Thomas Bewick, which are of course moralizing but also humorous, as to be relatable to the intended, youthful audience. Trusler states in the preface that Bewick's woodcuts "knew how to illustrate the follies and vices of man better than most men." 12mo. viii, 196pp. ESTC T93463. Opie B 328. Very good in contemporary half-leather over marbled boards, top edge gilt, a bit rubbed with some wear to upper joint, discrete nineteenth-century library stamp to pastedown.