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London: Vernor and Hood; Longman and Rees; J Harris; Darton and Harvey et al, 1803. Excellent. Very Good. [iv] pp 136 A collection of moral precepts by English publisher, poet and playwright Robert Dodsley. The volume is beautifully illustrated with woodcuts within the text by Austin and Hole from designs by Craig. Attractively bound in tooled decorative calf with gilt decoration to spine, marbled end papers, frontispiece portrait of the author. Very good, the leather is rubbed to edges and spine where a one inch piece is lacking; the binding is sound and the pages clean. Very Good 1803

London ; Printed For Vernor, Wood, And Sharpe, 1808. 1st Edition in this form. Hardback. Original full tree-calf very good with floral gilt-bordering. Professionally recased in matching aniline calf with the original label replaced; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 102 pages; Subject: Conduct of life. Anonymous author: pt.1 is by Robert Dodsley, but sometimes atributed to Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield; pt.2 is attributed to John Hill.