Accession number
PML 147209
Creator
Gregory, G. (George), 1754-1808.
Published
London : Printed for G. Kearsley, no. 46, Fleet Street, 1789.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Reprinted from the 2d ed. of Biographia britannica, v. 4, p. 573-619, with some changes in arrangement.
Price below imprint in square brackets: "Price Five Shillings sewed."
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-R⁸ S⁴.
Appendix (p. [229]-263) contains 'The art of puffing' [poem by Chatterton] and 'Letters of Thomas Chatterton'.
Sig. A2v comprises "An extract from Kew Gardens, an unpublished MS of Chatterton being a facsimile of his hand writing".
Publisher's advertisement: p. [264].
Library's copy imperfect; lacking leaf A2 with the facsimile of "An extract from Kew Gardens" on verso.
Price below imprint in square brackets: "Price Five Shillings sewed."
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-R⁸ S⁴.
Appendix (p. [229]-263) contains 'The art of puffing' [poem by Chatterton] and 'Letters of Thomas Chatterton'.
Sig. A2v comprises "An extract from Kew Gardens, an unpublished MS of Chatterton being a facsimile of his hand writing".
Publisher's advertisement: p. [264].
Library's copy imperfect; lacking leaf A2 with the facsimile of "An extract from Kew Gardens" on verso.
Description
vi, [2], 263, [1] p. : facsim. ; 22 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Charles Wells; book label stating that the volume came from the Browning Collection, sold by Messrs. Sotheby, May 1-8, 1913; Bertram Dobell cat., "Browning memorials", no. 191; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Dark green cloth.
Classification
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