THE MANAGEMENT OF THE TONGUE. Under these following heads. 1 Of conversation. 2 The babler. 3 The silent man. 4 The witty man ... 26 The complainer. 27 The comforter. Done out of French

by Laurent Bordelon

$500 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

London, printed. Boston: Re-printed and sold by B. Edes and Sons, in Cornhill, 1783. First American edition. 19 cm. 18 , 159, 1 pp. Nice example of a period leather American binding with raised bands on spine. Moderately scuffed, corners worn through. Owner's lengthy inscription on front free endpaper, in part: Hallet Gallup his book bought by him at the printing office the thirty-first day of August, 1784. Price four shillings. On the blank leaf in rear

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