The Olio: being a collection of essays, dialogues, letters, biographical sketches, anecdotes, pieces of poetry, parodies, bon mots, epigrams, epitaphs, &c., chiefly original

by Francis Grose

$175 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: Hooper & Wigstead, 1796. Second and best edition, corrected and enlarged, and with an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author not included in the first edition; 8vo, pp. iii -xxii, & 321, 3 ads; half-title is not preserved; contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label sometime renewed ; front joint cracked, cords holding; good. Among the humorous anecdotes, verses, and essays on such subjects as begging, funerals, public nuisances, and

• Binding: Leather

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