•  Evans 8400 & 8399; ESTC W33793. Good-quality 20th-century quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label, raised bands, and ornately handsome blind-stamping within compartments. Back fly-leaf with inked inscription dated 1782. Some browning and spotting; one early, inked marginal annotation.

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•  19th-century pebbled cloth, covers framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title, decoration, and institutional ownership mark; upper board edges faintly discolored, spine sunned and with discolored area from now-absent label. Front pastedown with institutional presentation bookplate, title-page with early inked inscription (partially shaved), preface with inked numeral in lower margin; back pastedown and free endpaper with slip, barcode, and pocket. Title-page and first text-page perforation-stamped; front pastedown, title-page, and lower edges with rubber-stamp. Final third of volume with lower outer corners ink-stained, never nearing text; last few leaves with offsetting and light foxing. A worthier copy than the list of library markings leads one to visualize.

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The third volume includes two plates and one oversized, folding plate reproducing two inscriptions and a frieze, engraved by E. Malpas.

Uncommon outside of Great Britain.

•  ESTC T113913; Brunet, I, 26; Lowndes, I, 5. Contemporary treed calf, spines gilt extra, with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels; leather worn at edges and moderately rubbed with joints cracking. Front pastedowns with private bookplates and signs that a plate was removed on front free endpaper (one vol. endpaper holed); impressions of old pencilled shelf numbers on title-pages (and one lightly inked old date). First two leaves of vol. III with upper margins stained and final leaf browned; some pages with a few spots of faint foxing, most clean and crisp.

•  ESTC T88657; Dibdin, I, 232; Schweiger, I, 2. Contemporary vellum-covered boards, covers framed and panelled in blind with central blind-stamped strapwork medallions, spines with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels. Boards sprung with front joint of vol. I open and separating from bottom, vellum soiled. Front free endpapers with early inked owner’s name as above; shadow of shelf number once pencilled on title-page, erased. Spotting of various sorts and minor smudging in upper margins of some pages; leaves otherwise clean.

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•  ESTC T22230. Rebound in quarter library cloth, front and back covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library, front cover with paper shelving label. Hinges (inside) starting. Title-page and p. 37 with perforation stamp, pp. 23 and 35 with rubber-stamp, title-page with paper remnants adhered at top margin, rear free endpaper with library charge pocket. Title-leaf separated and chipped, with loss of three letters from the title and several letters from the imprint. Pages 1–6 with tear in lower inner margin and slightly separating. Front free endpaper loose and chipped. Title-leaf browned, p. 1 soiled at top margin, light stain on p. 36, soiling on p. 38. Pages 29-30 soiled, missing some paper in fore-margin, and creased from folding of one corner. Final two leaves with very small dog-ears. Lacks the frontispiece. Toned. (10352)

•  Brunet, I, 150; Dibdin, I, 254; Schweiger, I, 20. 19th-century paper-covered boards, spine with hand-inked paper label; paper rubbed and chipping over edges, joints, and spine extremities, with spine label darkened. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate; title-page with inked numeral in upper margin; back pastedown with inked numeral. Edges untrimmed.