Longworth's Belles Lettres Repository for 1803 caption title

by Almanac, David Longworth, publisher

$3,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

24 engraved vignette illustrations by Peter Maverick. 5-80, 2 pp, with the calendar and memorandum pages i.e. pp. 41-64 engraved. 12mo. Original wrappers, each comprised of two plates backed onto each other i.e. 4 plates in total , engraved by Anderson. Publisher's red morocco gilt slipcase. Shaw 2551 dating the imprint as 1802, locating only the example at the Huntington Library ; Pomeroy, J.R. Alexander Anderson, 1775-1870, 105. See Tanselle 01.01. Item #373912

• Binding: Leather

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