[MOORE (EDWARD, 1712-57, editor)] The World, for the year One Thousand seven Hundred and fifty-three, [fifty-four, fifty-five and fifty-six], London, for R. and J. Dodsley, January the 4th, 1753 - December the 23d, 1756, nos. I-LII, LIV-LV, LVII-CXCVIII, CC-CCV, CCVII-CCVIII only of 209 (lacking 53, 56, 199, 206 and 209, also lacking last leaf of no. 207 and title to last vol.) in 4 vols. bound in 3, 2° (first title torn with some loss and repaired, occasional browning and staining throughout, authors' names entered in a contemporary hand), contemporary half calf (joints cracked) [Rothschild 1755]; and another copy in 2 vols., containing the same numbers, and compensating for the former's defects. (5)

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[MOORE (EDWARD, 1712-57, editor)] The World, for the year One Thousand seven Hundred and fifty-three, [fifty-four, fifty-five and fifty-six], London, for R. and J. Dodsley, January the 4th, 1753 - December the 23d, 1756, nos. I-LII, LIV-LV, LVII-CXCVIII, CC-CCV, CCVII-CCVIII only of 209 (lacking 53, 56, 199, 206 and 209, also lacking last leaf of no. 207 and title to last vol.) in 4 vols. bound in 3, 2° (first title torn with some loss and repaired, occasional browning and staining throughout, authors' names entered in a contemporary hand), contemporary half calf (joints cracked) [Rothschild 1755]; and another copy in 2 vols., containing the same numbers, and compensating for the former's defects. (5)

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The authors principally writing for The World were the editor, Edward Moore, the Earl of Chesterfield, Richard Owen Cambridge and Horace Walpole.

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