The Spectator..Volume the Seventh...No.474.Wednesday,Sep.3,1712 to No.555,Saturday,Dec.6
London: Private Published for J.Coote,No14 Red-Lion.Street Clerkenwell By Virtue of a Lte Decision in the House of Peers, 1778. Full tooled ribbed leather boards the titles in faded gilding on a red patch to the spine.Boards edges are decorated with now faded gilding.Corners are mildly bumped and the firm binding will last another couple of hundred years or so.Both hinges are crack ing just a tad. and there is some mild foxing which does not interfere with the text in any way.The previous careful owner an Wm,Hale..A.Gray of Quebec has passed ("Descended from")the book down to his grandson James Gray. is written in a fine hand in India Ink on the title page.. First Thus. Full Leather. Very Good/None Given. Illus. by Frontis a B/W Engraving. . 2 7/8" By 5 1/4" Tall..
[Bookseller: Mulberry Books]
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