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[TOPHAM, Edward]. Letters from Edinburgh; Written in the Years 1774 and 1775: containing some Observations on the Diversions, Customs, Manners, and Laws, of the Scotch Nation, London: J. Dodsley, 1776. 8°. (Some marginal browning to last title, dedication and last few text leaves, a few light spots). Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked in old style preserving original red morocco lettering-piece). Provenance: Arthur Melville Clark (armorial bookplate).
With 7 other miscellaneous 18th-century works in 8 volumes including Samuel Butler's Hudibras (London, 1726, engraved plates by Hogarth), Oliver Goldsmith's The Miscellaneous Works ... containing all his Essays and Poems (London, 1775), Samuel Musgrave's Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian Mythology. II. An Examination of Sir Isaac Newton's Objections to the Chronology of the Olympiads (London, 1782) and Cornelia Knight's Dinarbas; a Tale: being a Continuation of Rasselas ... The Third Edition (London, 1793), all bound in contemporary or modern calf. (9)
With 7 other miscellaneous 18th-century works in 8 volumes including Samuel Butler's Hudibras (London, 1726, engraved plates by Hogarth), Oliver Goldsmith's The Miscellaneous Works ... containing all his Essays and Poems (London, 1775), Samuel Musgrave's Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian Mythology. II. An Examination of Sir Isaac Newton's Objections to the Chronology of the Olympiads (London, 1782) and Cornelia Knight's Dinarbas; a Tale: being a Continuation of Rasselas ... The Third Edition (London, 1793), all bound in contemporary or modern calf. (9)
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