An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting…with Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Pleasant Art…The Second Edition, corrected

by Jane Collier

$250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Second Edition. Engraved frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf, upper cover detached, spine defective; bookplate of Lord Camden. Item #7539 A classic of black humor, here published for the second time, with a new Advertisement to the Reader by Collier. The guiding principle is: “Remember always to do unto to every one, what you would least wish to have done unto yourself.”.

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