[BEDS AND BUGS] A collection of articles and short narratives on beds, with 14 plates and illustrations showing different types of bed, many hand-coloured, extracted from various magazines and serial publications, early to mid 19th century, 8° [bound with:] John SOUTHALL. A Treatise on Buggs: shewing how they were first brought into England, how they are brought into and infect houses ... concluding with directions for such as have them not already, how to avoid them; and for those that have them, how to destroy them, London: for J. Roberts, 1730, FIRST EDITION, 8° in 4's, engraved frontispiece by G. Vandergucht (title and frontispiece slightly soiled), beds and bugs together in one volume, late 19th-century brown half morocco, corn sheaf crest gilt-stamped on upper cover, flat spine titled "Beds and Bugs" (rubbed), ex libris Robert, Marquis of Crewe. | Christie's

Lot 112

112

VI. English Literature

[BEDS AND BUGS] A collection of articles and short narratives on beds, with 14 plates and illustrations showing different types of bed, many hand-coloured, extracted from various magazines and serial publications, early to mid 19th century, 8° [bound with:] John SOUTHALL. A Treatise on Buggs: shewing how they were first brought into England, how they are brought into and infect houses ... concluding with directions for such as have them not already, how to avoid them; and for those that have them, how to destroy them, London: for J. Roberts, 1730, FIRST EDITION, 8° in 4's, engraved frontispiece by G. Vandergucht (title and frontispiece slightly soiled), beds and bugs together in one volume, late 19th-century brown half morocco, corn sheaf crest gilt-stamped on upper cover, flat spine titled "Beds and Bugs" (rubbed), ex libris Robert, Marquis of Crewe.

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[BEDS AND BUGS] A collection of articles and short narratives on beds, with 14 plates and illustrations showing different types of bed, many hand-coloured, extracted from various magazines and serial publications, early to mid 19th century, 8° [bound with:] John SOUTHALL. A Treatise on Buggs: shewing how they were first brought into England, how they are brought into and infect houses ... concluding with directions for such as have them not already, how to avoid them; and for those that have them, how to destroy them, London: for J. Roberts, 1730, FIRST EDITION, 8° in 4's, engraved frontispiece by G. Vandergucht (title and frontispiece slightly soiled), beds and bugs together in one volume, late 19th-century brown half morocco, corn sheaf crest gilt-stamped on upper cover, flat spine titled "Beds and Bugs" (rubbed), ex libris Robert, Marquis of Crewe.

Lot Essay

John Southall is described on the title page as "Maker of the Nonpareil Liquor for destroying buggs and nits, living at the Green Posts in the Green Walk, near Faulcon-stairs, Southwark." ESTCm locates just 2 copies of the first edition in the UK, and 5 in North America.

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