[PYE, Henry James] The Democrat, interspersed with anecdotes of well known characters ... second edition, London: for William Lane at the Minerva Press, 1796, 2 volumes in one, small 8° (lacking half title to vol. I), later red half roan (spine heavily rubbed), bookplates of Sir Richard Burton, Sacketts Hill House, and Robert, Marquis of Crewe. [Blakey Minerva Press p. 174] -- William MAGINN. John Manesty, the Liverpool Merchant. With illustrations by George Cruikshank, London: John Mortimer, 1844, 2 volumes in one, 8°, FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY WITH VERSO OF TITLE SIGNED BY J. G. LOCKHART, THE DEDICATEE, etched frontispiece and an additional plate by Cruikshank in each volume, later red half morocco with Houghton crest and a biographical extract on the author bound in at front (joints rubbed), t.e.g., others uncut, partly unopened, bookplate of Robert, Marquis of Crewe. [Sadleir 1515; Wolff III, 4374] With 12 other volumes. (14)
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[PYE, Henry James] The Democrat, interspersed with anecdotes of well known characters ... second edition, London: for William Lane at the Minerva Press, 1796, 2 volumes in one, small 8° (lacking half title to vol. I), later red half roan (spine heavily rubbed), bookplates of Sir Richard Burton, Sacketts Hill House, and Robert, Marquis of Crewe. [Blakey Minerva Press p. 174] -- William MAGINN. John Manesty, the Liverpool Merchant. With illustrations by George Cruikshank, London: John Mortimer, 1844, 2 volumes in one, 8°, FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY WITH VERSO OF TITLE SIGNED BY J. G. LOCKHART, THE DEDICATEE, etched frontispiece and an additional plate by Cruikshank in each volume, later red half morocco with Houghton crest and a biographical extract on the author bound in at front (joints rubbed), t.e.g., others uncut, partly unopened, bookplate of Robert, Marquis of Crewe. [Sadleir 1515; Wolff III, 4374] With 12 other volumes. (14)
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The Democrat was first published by the Minerva Press the preceding year.