Accession number
PML 5002
Creator
Sidney, Algernon, 1623-1683.
Published
London, Printed for A. Millar, 1763.
Description
2 p. l., [1], 46, [6], 497, 198 p. front. (port.) 30 cm.
Notes
"This is an answer to Filmer's 'Patriarcha'."--Dict. of nat. biog., v. 52, p. 209.
Frontispiece engraved by J. Basire after G.B. Cipriani, and dated 1763.
Autograph note on front fly-leaf reads: "A present from the Editor T. Hollis."
Frontispiece engraved by J. Basire after G.B. Cipriani, and dated 1763.
Autograph note on front fly-leaf reads: "A present from the Editor T. Hollis."
Binding
Red morocco, with stamps on sides and back.
Provenance
Edited by Thomas Hollis, for whom this copy was bound and stamped in gilt with "republican" emblems. Stamps also appear on front and back fly-leaves. With armorial bookplate of Horace Walpole on t.p. and plate of James Toovey.
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