Accession number:
PML 2103
Published:
London : A. Millar [et al.], 1764.
Credit:
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Description:
416 p., [1] leaf of fold. plates ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"The present edition of this book has not only been collated with the first three editions, which were published during the author's life, but also has the advantage of his last corrections and improvements, from a copy delivered by him to Mr. Peter Coste, communicated to the editor, and now lodged in Christ College, Cambridge."
Frontispiece engraved by G.B. Cipriani.
Edited by Thomas Hollis, for whom this copy was bound, and stamped in gilt with "republican" emblems. Stamps also appear on front and back ...
Notes in Hollis's hand on recto of back fly-leaf.
Binding:
Red morocco, with gilt stamps on sides and back.
Provenance:
Hollis, Thomas; James Toovey; Charles Toovey; Pierpont Morgan.
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