The History of Abou-Casem, and his two remarkable slippers. Likewise the moral tale of the basket-maker. To which is added The Balloon Traveller...Adorned with cuts. London: printed for and sold by W. Lane...n.d. [?1780]. 24° (110 x 77mm). Collation: A-C8. 11 wood engravings in text (lacking A1:8). Orange flower-embossed paper over boards (re-backed to match). Unrecorded, but an edition using the same sheets appeared under the imprint "Printed for and sold wholesale by Barling & Co." Apparently a collaborative job in which Lane was involved fairly soon after setting up at Leadenhall Street in 1775 or before setting up his own press c.1785 or establishing the Minerva imprint in 1790. -- With The Palace of Enchantment...printed for William Lane at the Minerva Press, 1794. 12° (top board loose) Blakey p.166; -- [Marie Catherine Comtesse d'AULNOY (1650-1705)]. The Enchanter; or a wonderful story teller...printed for William Lane at the Minerva-Press, 1795. 12° (hinges weak). Not in Blakey, one copy recorded in ESTC (1990). -- [Daniel DEFOE (1661?-1731)]. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe...In two volumes...printed at the Minerva-Press...1801. Two volumes 12° (hinges weak). Blakey: Appendix III; -- and [Maria West (?)]. The Advantages of Education...In two volumes. Second edition...Printed at the Minerva-Press, 1803. Two volumes 12° (lacking frontispiece to volume I). Original blue paper boards (paper backs fragile, label gone from volume II). Blakey p.205. (7)

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The History of Abou-Casem, and his two remarkable slippers. Likewise the moral tale of the basket-maker. To which is added The Balloon Traveller...Adorned with cuts. London: printed for and sold by W. Lane...n.d. [?1780]. 24° (110 x 77mm). Collation: A-C8. 11 wood engravings in text (lacking A1:8). Orange flower-embossed paper over boards (re-backed to match). Unrecorded, but an edition using the same sheets appeared under the imprint "Printed for and sold wholesale by Barling & Co." Apparently a collaborative job in which Lane was involved fairly soon after setting up at Leadenhall Street in 1775 or before setting up his own press c.1785 or establishing the Minerva imprint in 1790. -- With The Palace of Enchantment...printed for William Lane at the Minerva Press, 1794. 12° (top board loose) Blakey p.166; -- [Marie Catherine Comtesse d'AULNOY (1650-1705)]. The Enchanter; or a wonderful story teller...printed for William Lane at the Minerva-Press, 1795. 12° (hinges weak). Not in Blakey, one copy recorded in ESTC (1990). -- [Daniel DEFOE (1661?-1731)]. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe...In two volumes...printed at the Minerva-Press...1801. Two volumes 12° (hinges weak). Blakey: Appendix III; -- and [Maria West (?)]. The Advantages of Education...In two volumes. Second edition...Printed at the Minerva-Press, 1803. Two volumes 12° (lacking frontispiece to volume I). Original blue paper boards (paper backs fragile, label gone from volume II). Blakey p.205. (7)

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