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SMOLLETT, Tobias (1721-1771). Miscellaneous Works, Edinburgh: David Ramsay for John and James Fairbairn and A. Gutherie, 1790. 6 volumes, 8° (210 x 123mm). 6 engraved frontispieces after Thomas Rowlandson. (Frontispieces cropped at fore-edges, light offsetting onto titles, occasional light spotting.) Modern salmon calf (spines a little faded, covers with waterstains). FIRST EDITION. Lowndes 6, 2432.
WILSON, John (1785-1854). Works, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866-68. 12 volumes, 8° (185 x 115mm). 5 engraved portrait frontispieces. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and green calf lettering-pieces (lightly rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: John Horsfall (presentation inscription, letter inserted and bookplate in vol. one).
With Oliver Goldsmith's Works (London, 1854, 4 vols.), Thomas Carlyle's Works (London, 1866-1869, 9 vols.) and James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson (London, 1872, 10 vols.). (41)
WILSON, John (1785-1854). Works, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866-68. 12 volumes, 8° (185 x 115mm). 5 engraved portrait frontispieces. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and green calf lettering-pieces (lightly rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: John Horsfall (presentation inscription, letter inserted and bookplate in vol. one).
With Oliver Goldsmith's Works (London, 1854, 4 vols.), Thomas Carlyle's Works (London, 1866-1869, 9 vols.) and James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson (London, 1872, 10 vols.). (41)
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