THICKNESSE, Anne. Sketches of the Lives and Writings of the Ladies of France, London: for Dodsley and W. Brown, 1780-81, 3 volumes, 12° in 6's, second edition (T1r of vol. I a little soiled, clean tear to errata leaf at end of the vol., final leaf of vol. III laid down), contemporary half calf over red marbled boards, flat-backed spines titled in gilt (a little rubbed), book label and armorial of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft. With 37 other volumes, including the ninth edition of Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding (London, 1726, 2 vols.). (40)

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THICKNESSE, Anne. Sketches of the Lives and Writings of the Ladies of France, London: for Dodsley and W. Brown, 1780-81, 3 volumes, 12° in 6's, second edition (T1r of vol. I a little soiled, clean tear to errata leaf at end of the vol., final leaf of vol. III laid down), contemporary half calf over red marbled boards, flat-backed spines titled in gilt (a little rubbed), book label and armorial of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft. With 37 other volumes, including the ninth edition of Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding (London, 1726, 2 vols.). (40)

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Both editions of Ann Thicknesse's Sketches are rare. Of copies in British Libraries, ESTCm locates 3 of the second edition, and none of the first edition of 1778.

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