Accession number
PML 142161
Creator
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.
Published
London : Printed by T. Rickaby, for S. and E. Harding, Pall-Mall, 1795.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Attributed to Robert Dodsley in the Dictionary of National Biography. Also attributed to Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, or that the Earl wrote part 1 while John Hill wrote part 2.
Illustrated throughout with 49 stipple engravings; several signed Harding delin. and Gardiner sc., with imprint of E. & S. Harding.
Engravings are identified in the GNR checklist as proof impressions, with initials of Thomas Stothard in pencil.
Publishers' advertisements: p. [117]-119.
Large paper copy.
25 copies printed. Cf. Lowndes.
Illustrated throughout with 49 stipple engravings; several signed Harding delin. and Gardiner sc., with imprint of E. & S. Harding.
Engravings are identified in the GNR checklist as proof impressions, with initials of Thomas Stothard in pencil.
Publishers' advertisements: p. [117]-119.
Large paper copy.
25 copies printed. Cf. Lowndes.
Description
116 p. : ill. (engravings) : 28 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary green morocco tooled in gilt.
Classification
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