Anecdotes of distinguished persons, chiefly of the last and two preceding centuries. Illustrated

by engravings. The fifth edition. In four volumes by William Seward

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1804. 4 volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispieces in each volume, 14 pages of engraved music, 8 other engraved plates and 3 facsimiles; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfbacks, manuscript titling on spines; joints starting, spines darkened, occasional bumps and cracks, but generally very good. Seward 1747-1799 was an intimate of Samuel Johnson and Fanny Burney, and he once proposed

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