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Dialogues of the Dead
by [LYTTELTON, GEORGE, LORD]
- Used
- Condition
- Hinges starting, but sound; edges slightly rubbed; fine copy.
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1760, 1760. First edition, Todd's edition A.. ESTC T78375; NCBEL II, 556; Todd, "Patterns in the Press Figures: A Story in Lyttelton's Dialogues of the Dead," Studies in Bibliography, No. 8, 1956. Hinges starting, but sound; edges slightly rubbed; fine copy.. 8vo, later 18th century English brown half calf, marbled paper boards, red morocco spine label, gilt rules and lettering. The popular Dialogues of the Dead by Lord George Lyttelton (also spelled Lyttleton) (1709-1773). This first edition contains 28 dialogues, the first 25 are by Lyttelton and the final three by his friend Elizabeth Montagu. Lyttelton's interlocutors include Addison and Swift, Plato and Fenelon, Cortez and William Penn, Boileau and Pope, Locke and Bayle, and Lucian and Rabelais. In number 28, Elizabeth Montague has Plutarch, Charon and a contemporary London bookseller discussing reading tastes of the day. Lyttelton was a respected and well-connected politician and man of letters. His Dialogues, which went through a number of editions, were the quintessential Augustan imaginary conversations; they were widely imitated, and almost no work with the title Dialogue(s) of the Dead was published in England in the decades following Lyttelton's without acknowledging him as a model and inspiration. See the ODNB.
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- Bookseller
- The Brick Row Book Shop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23011
- Title
- Dialogues of the Dead
- Author
- [LYTTELTON, GEORGE, LORD]
- Format/Binding
- ESTC T78375; NCBEL II, 556; Todd, "Patterns in the Press Figures: A Story in Lyttelton's Dialogues of the Dead," Studies in Bibl
- Book Condition
- Used - Hinges starting, but sound; edges slightly rubbed; fine copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, Todd's edition A.
- Publisher
- London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1760
- Date Published
- 1760
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The Brick Row Book Shop
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