Anecdotes Observations And Characters Of Books And Men Collected From The Conversation Of Mr Pope

by Joseph Spence Samuel Weller Singer

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First edition

London: W. H. Carpenter1820, 1820. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. XXXIX, 501 pp. Brown cloth. Frontis piece with a lovely steel engraved portrait of Joseph Spence. Uncut page edges. The author, Joseph Spence 1699-1768 , was an English author and professor most famous for this particular collection of anecdotes that are an invaluable resource for historians of 18th century English literature Augustan literature . The second

• Binding: Hardcover

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