The adventurer

by John Hawkesworth

$250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

London: C. Hitch and L. Lawes et al. , 1756- 70 . Mixed edition, 4 vols., uniformly bound in full contemporary calf, red and green morocco labels, one volume designation label missing; joints cracked, otherwise generally good and sound. An early manuscript note on the flyleaf of the first volume reads: The papers with the signature J. Dr. Johnson wrote besides the History of the Admirable Crichton. Volume 1 is the third edition, volume 2 is the fifth

• Binding: Leather

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