The Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins Or The History Of The Flying Islanders Taken From His Own

by Robert Paltock

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First American edition. Frontispieces engraved by David Claypoole Johnston. Illustrated titles. These plates are considered the first fantastic or fantasy plates published in America. 2 vols. Sm. 12mo. Original rose cloth-backed boards, printed paper labels worn . Cloth faded with some tears, binding rubbed, inner hinges of first volume broken, front free endpaper there lacking, shaken, a tear on p.86/7 with loss affecting 4 lines of text, some

• Binding: Hardcover

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