Miscellanies. London; Printed for Benjamin Motte, and Charles Bathurst; MDCCXXXVI (1736). In Four Volumes. (Includes works of Dean Swift).
[Together with]
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. The Fifth and Sixth Volumes. London; Printed for T. Woodward, and Charles Davis. 1736.
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Includes Miscellanies such as The Fable of Midas, Arguments Against Enlarging the Power of Bishops, Extracts of Punishments in the Aeneid (in Latin), a Discourse on the Contents and Dissections Between Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome, Treatise on the Art of Sinking, Cadenus and Vanessa, Law is a Bottomless Pit, The Rape of the Lock, etc.
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Provenance:
Bookplate inscribed "Burton William Pearl his Book".
And
Inscribed "Ms Lureur" (?).
Size: 105 x 167 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
Uniformly bound with gilt numbering on spines. Spines with minor wear, including scratches and cracking of backstrip. Very small labels (?) in varying sizes, due to some fragments lacking, attached to bottoms of spines. Prominent wear to heads and bottoms of spines. Small holes at the bottom of the backstop of volume three. All boards attached with prominent wear to joints and hinges, some cracked or starting. Boards with scratches, scuffing and rubbing. Most prominent scratches on the boards of volume two. Spots of more prominent rubbing on front board of volume three. Shelf and edge wear. Minor shelf lean. Dulling to page edges. Bookplate attached to front pastedown in all volumes. Pen ownership inscription on ffep in all volumes but volume three. Pencil inscriptions on front pastedown and ffep in volume one. Endpapers toned and offset. Text blocks very clean with light toning and very sporadic very minor foxing.
