Description: Leather. 8vo. Printed for John Stockdale, London, 1790. xvi, 470 pgs + xvi (index), 106 pg (addenda) + v (Index to the addenda) + 1 pg (errata) + xvi (Stockdale's catalogue). Illustrated with frontispiece (an adept with a pair of bellows at the furnace, distilling the literary contents of a vast alembic, the products spilling into an urn marked 'Anecdotes'.). New Edition, Corrected and Much Enlarged. Bound in 3/4 red morocco and marble paper covered cloth by Riviere and Sons with gilt titles and raised bands present to the spine. Marble endpapers. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. Previous owner's bookplate (Ernest Aldrich Simpson; see below for biographic information) present to the reverse of the front board. Foxing present. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Alphabetical sections containing contemporary anecdotes on a wide variety of subjects, including alchymy, animals, art, books, coaches, conjugal infidelity, customs and inventions, family, fanaticism, feasting, free-thinking, gaming, heraldry, hermits, inhumanity, laws, lazy monks, liberty, medicine, natural enemies, parliament, passions, plays and novels, poetry, pride, religion, romance, scandal, superstition, suspicion, taste, tyranny, vanity, virtue and vice, wealth, whims, & women, amongst several other sections. Ernest Aldrich Simpson (6 May 1897 – 30 November 1958) was an American-born British shipbroker, best known as the second husband of Wallis Simpson, later wife of the former King Edward VIII. James Pettit Andrews (1737 - 6 August 1797) was an English historian and antiquary. Riviere Red Morocco Leather 1790 Anecdotes &c Antient & Modern James Andrews Track Page Views WithAuctiva's FREE Counter
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Author: James Pettit Andrews
Binding: Leather
Character Family: Anecdotes, &c.
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
Place of Publication: London
Publisher: John Stockdale
Region: North America
Special Attributes: Illustrated, Fine Riviere Leather Binding, Red Morocco
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Topic: Anecdotes
Year Printed: 1790
