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MINERVA PRESS -- BENNETT, Agnes Maria (d. 1808). The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors, London: for William Lane at the Minerva Press, 1797. 7 volumes, 12° (168 x 97mm.). Half titles. (Occasional light spotting and browning). Contemporary half calf, lettering-piece on spines. (Rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Blakey The Minerva Press 1790-1820, p. 180.
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MINERVA PRESS -- BENNETT, Agnes Maria (d. 1808). The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors, London: for William Lane at the Minerva Press, 1797. 7 volumes, 12° (168 x 97mm.). Half titles. (Occasional light spotting and browning). Contemporary half calf, lettering-piece on spines. (Rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Blakey The Minerva Press 1790-1820, p. 180.
PIGAULT-LEBRUN, Guillaume Charles Antoine. Monsieur Botte. A Romance, London: for Lane and Newman at the Minerva Press, 1803. 3 volumes, 12° (169 x 99mm.). Half titles in vols. one and III. (Lacking in volume II, F4 in volume one torn with loss of text, a few short tears and small holes, occasional light spotting). Contemporary calf. (Lettering-pieces lacking on vols. one and III, rubbed). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Blakey p. 207
LAFONTAINE, August Heinrich Julius. Dolgorucki and Menzikof. A Russian Tale, London: for Lane, Newman and Co., 1805. 2 volumes, 12° (165 x 100mm.). (O1 with small piece torn from inner margin in vol. one, occasional light spotting). Contemporary tree calf. (Gilt lettering and decoration faded on spines, joints and edges rubbed). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Blakey p. 214. (12)
PIGAULT-LEBRUN, Guillaume Charles Antoine. Monsieur Botte. A Romance, London: for Lane and Newman at the Minerva Press, 1803. 3 volumes, 12° (169 x 99mm.). Half titles in vols. one and III. (Lacking in volume II, F4 in volume one torn with loss of text, a few short tears and small holes, occasional light spotting). Contemporary calf. (Lettering-pieces lacking on vols. one and III, rubbed). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Blakey p. 207
LAFONTAINE, August Heinrich Julius. Dolgorucki and Menzikof. A Russian Tale, London: for Lane, Newman and Co., 1805. 2 volumes, 12° (165 x 100mm.). (O1 with small piece torn from inner margin in vol. one, occasional light spotting). Contemporary tree calf. (Gilt lettering and decoration faded on spines, joints and edges rubbed). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Blakey p. 214. (12)