Harris (Moses): The Aurelian, first edition, first issue, folio, For the Author, 1766 [Lisney 229; ZBI 1835], engraved frontispiece (uncoloured) and 41 hand-coloured engraved plates by Harris (B1 cut down at lower and outer margins, (?) supplied from another copy, light soiling and spotting), contemporary half calf (rubbed).

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Harris (Moses): The Aurelian, first edition, first issue, folio, For the Author, 1766 [Lisney 229; ZBI 1835], engraved frontispiece (uncoloured) and 41 hand-coloured engraved plates by Harris (B1 cut down at lower and outer margins, (?) supplied from another copy, light soiling and spotting), contemporary half calf (rubbed).

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The plates appear here in a mixture of first and second states, with the dedication to plate VII in its second state and that to plate XXXV still in its first. The separately engraved dedication to plate I, called for in Lisney, is not present here.

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