Accession number
PML 89089
Published
Glasgow : Printed and sold by J. & M. Robertson, and J. Duncan, 1786
Credit line
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 2023.
Notes
PML copy missing pages 25-26.
PML copy with frontispiece glued down as front pastedown, perhaps as issued.
PML copy with frontispiece glued down as front pastedown, perhaps as issued.
Description
120 pages : illustrations ; 10 cm (24mo)
Provenance
Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Michael Laird Rare Books on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, Feb. 2023.
Binding
18th-century Scottish or English paste-paper boards covered in a blue paper wrapper printed in silver (oxidized) for "Plattilles Royales" (linen manufacturer from Silesia, now Czech Republic). Unidentified manuscript inscription on wrapper (probably related to the original use of the wrapper rather than the book).
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