Early British Books

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Maxims, observations, and reflections, moral, political, and divine.

ADDISON, (Joseph).

Typographical and metalcut head- and tail-pieces, metalcut initals

2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. [2] ff., 187 pp. Title and p. 89 (M5) laid down, but apparently as issued, without the portrait, A2-3 'advertisment' and without the advertisement leaf at the end of part I (M6). Eighteenth-century speckled calf (later tan morocco lettering-piece).

London: for E. Curll, 1720

Provenance: 1. Wm: Baisley. London 173... (signed on titles to both parts, inscription partly cropped by binder). 2. R.H.S.T. (bookplate with motto 'Semper Fidelis').