"One hundred and forty copies of this small paper edition have been printed ...", Series: The Moray library., and Untrimmed. Advertising matter: p. [89]. Author's autographed presentation copy to Oscar Wilde. Bookplate of Earl Ellsworth Fisk.
Publisher:
Stanesby & Co. ; Derby and Nottingham, Frank Murray,
Subject (Name):
Fisk, Earl Ellsworth,--1892---Bookplate, Hutchinson, Thomas--Autograph, Hutchinson, Thomas--Presentation inscription to O. Wilde, and Wilde, Oscar,--1854-1900--Presentation inscription from T. Hutchinson
Signatures: A4(A1 blank)B8A-G8(G8 blank)C-G8H4., The first book (110p., sig. A-G) is made up of the remainder sheets of the 1650 edition, including the engraved illus. t.-p. and the preceding leaf of "Authoris ... emblema"; the text of p. 20-21 is in the original state., and The t.p. of book 1 bears on the reverse the signature "Tho: ffrance 1652"; hence the book was evidently in his hands before the publication of book 2 and the general t.-p. and prefatory matter. Bookplate of John Cawley of Topsham. Bookplate of Frank Brewer Bemis. Bookplate of Chauncey Brewster Tinker.
Publisher:
Printed for Henry Crips, and Lodowick LLoyd, next to the Castle in Cornhill, and in Popes-Head Alley,
Subject (Name):
Bemis, Frank Brewer,--1861-1935--Bookplate., Cawley, John,--of Topsham--Bookplate., and Tinker, Chauncey Brewster,--1876-1963--Bookplate
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Published / Created:
1751
Call Number:
1986 139
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Economy of human life
Description:
Likely the true first ed. and Published anonymously. By Robert Dodsley but authorship attributed also to the Earl of Chesterfield. Cf. Notes and queries, 1st ser., v. 10, p. 8, 74, 318.
Publisher:
Printed for M. Cooper,
Subject (Name):
Scoggin, Glo.--Autograph, Thomson, Mary--Autograph, and Thomson, Sarah--Autograph