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ADDISON
Joseph. The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
Esq.
ADDISON
Joseph. The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
Esq. - 2
ADDISON
Joseph. The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
Esq. - 3
ADDISON
Joseph. The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
Esq.
ADDISON
Joseph. The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
Esq. - 2
ADDISON
Joseph. The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
Esq. - 3

MBA004: Lot 91. ADDISON, Joseph.

The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq.

£2500 - £3000

The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq. 75722

London, Jacob Tonson, 1721.

Description

Large paper copy. 4 volumes, 4to. (30 x 24 cm), engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignettes and initials, contemporary English red morocco, covers with wide, gilt borders of dotted lines, rolls, and foliate designs interspersed with crowns, spines extra gilt in six compartments, gilt outer edges, edges and dentelles, neat repairs to extremities, a very handsome set.

Provenance

Provenance: Thomas Fermor, second Baron Lempster and later 1st Earl of Pomfret (1698-1753), name in list of subscribers in volume 4; Henrietta Louisa Fermor [née Jeffreys], Countess of Pomfret (1698-1761), engraved armorial bookplate; William Petty [formerly Fitzmaurice], second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805), engraved armorial bookplate at end of each volume.

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