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London: W. Bowyer, 1743-5 2 vols. in 3. Folio, full leather Harlequin binding, gilt-decorated backstrip over 6 raised bands, marbled edges and endpaper. Bookplate tipped-in front pastedown. Vol. 1 contains 75 engraved plates; vol. 2 contains 103 engraved plates. Wear to edges and extremes of boards and backstrip; fading to boards and backstrip; dampstaining to lower right corner of vol. 1 and to bottom two inches of last third of text of vol. 2, no. 1, unaffecting text; bookplate tipped-in front pastedown; otherwise a sound set.


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