The Works … Adorned with Copper-Plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory,

by John Hawkesworth by Jonathan Swift

$3,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First Hawkesworth edition. Illustrated with one engraved frontispiece in first volume; 4 engraved plates of musical notation in the fourth volume; 25 engraved plates bound throughout set. Each volume is in two parts; each part, with the exception of vol. 1, pt. 1, has a separate title-page. 6 vols. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spines stamped in gilt, with a crimson and brown leather title labels, lightly worn, scattered blistering and scratches to covers,

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