Description
Item Description:Editor's preface signed: Tho. Tickell.
This edition is the ordinary paper issue; the headpiece on page 3 of volume 1 shows an urn on a pedestal. The large paper issue has headpiece on page 3 of volume 1 showing the Muse giving a lyre to a man.
Signatures: volume 1: pi⁴ a-b⁴ c² B-Bbbb⁴; volume 2: [A]-Eeee⁴; volume 3: A-Iiii⁴; volume 4: A-Gggg⁴ Hhhh².
"Three setts of medals ..." with separate title page: volume 1, pages [541]-559.
Frontispiece portrait engraved by G. Virtue after G. Kneller; illustrations engraved by G. van der Gucht.
Head- and tail-pieces; decorative and factotum initials.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. ǂ5 TXA
Physical Description:4 volumes ([4], xxi, [3], 559, [1]; [8], 583, [1]; 624; 594, [18] pages) : illustrations, portrait, facsimiles ; 26 cm (4to)