RICHARDSON, Samuel (1689-1761). Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady ... a New Edition, London: B. Law and Son (and others), 1792. 8 volumes, 12° (172 x 105mm.). 8 engraved frontispieces. Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces. (2 lettering-pieces lacking, rubbed and scuffed, 2 spines split). Provenance: Jane Hunter, 1831 (signature on titles); H. Lorimer, June [18]93 (signatures on endpapers). cf. Rothschild 1748.

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RICHARDSON, Samuel (1689-1761). Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady ... a New Edition, London: B. Law and Son (and others), 1792. 8 volumes, 12° (172 x 105mm.). 8 engraved frontispieces. Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces. (2 lettering-pieces lacking, rubbed and scuffed, 2 spines split). Provenance: Jane Hunter, 1831 (signature on titles); H. Lorimer, June [18]93 (signatures on endpapers). cf. Rothschild 1748.

With Gabriel Naude's Political Considerations upon Refin'd Politicks ... Translated into English by Dr. King (London, 1711), Henry St. John Bolingbroke's A Collection of Political Tracts (London, 1748), the same author's Letters, on the Spirit of Patriotism (London, 1749) and A Letter to Sir William Windham (London, 1753), Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (London, 1779, 4 vols.) and Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in England ... The Third Edition (London, 1782, 5 vols.). (21)

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