Accession number
PML 17983-17988
Published
London : Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1755-1757.
Notes
Title from caption.
By Edward Moore, assisted by Horace Walpole, R.O. Cambridge, the Earl of Chesterfield, and others. Edward Moore wrote under the pseudonym of Adam Fitz-Adam. Walpole contributed 9 numbers.
"Moore ... wrote sixty-one out of 210 numbers ... The World appeared in collective form at London in 1757, 2 vols. fol. and 6 vols. 12mo, and in 1761, 4 vols. 8vo; reprinted in 1772, 8vo. 1793, 8vo, and in 1794, 24mo."--Dict. of nat. biog., v. 38.
Vol. [6] includes "A World extraordinary," p. 312-320.
Library has collective 12mo ed. In the same year, 1757, appeared a collective form in fol., in 2 vols.
Call no. suffix: Walpole.
By Edward Moore, assisted by Horace Walpole, R.O. Cambridge, the Earl of Chesterfield, and others. Edward Moore wrote under the pseudonym of Adam Fitz-Adam. Walpole contributed 9 numbers.
"Moore ... wrote sixty-one out of 210 numbers ... The World appeared in collective form at London in 1757, 2 vols. fol. and 6 vols. 12mo, and in 1761, 4 vols. 8vo; reprinted in 1772, 8vo. 1793, 8vo, and in 1794, 24mo."--Dict. of nat. biog., v. 38.
Vol. [6] includes "A World extraordinary," p. 312-320.
Library has collective 12mo ed. In the same year, 1757, appeared a collective form in fol., in 2 vols.
Call no. suffix: Walpole.
Description
6 v.
Provenance
Horace Walpole's copy with his bookplate (Mr Horace Walpole) and his annotations in each vol.
Binding
Calf; in tan cloth case by Duprez Lahey.
Classification
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Department