Accession number
PML 198751
Creator
Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718, author.
Published
London : Printed for Benj. Tooke, at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, MDCCXIII [1713]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2016.
Notes
Anonymous. By Thomas Parnell.
First edition.
In verse.
With an initial half-title leaf.
Signatures: A-E⁴ F².
First edition.
In verse.
With an initial half-title leaf.
Signatures: A-E⁴ F².
Description
[8], 36 pages ; 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
With author's presentation inscription to John Gay on the half-title: J Gay Ex dono Authoris / [illegible inscription below struck out in ink]; inscription of former owner on preliminary binder's leaf facing half-title: Presentation Copy of "An Essay etc." to John Gay the Poet - see his autograph opposite. N.
Provenance
Bookplate of H. Buxton Forman (his sale, Anderson, March 15, 1920, lot 537); and R.B. Adam.
Binding
Brown morocco by Rivière & Son, with their signature: Bound by Riviere & Son for Buxton Forman.
Classification
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