Airy Nothings; or, Scraps and Naughts, and Odd-cum-Shorts; In a Circumbendibus Hop, Step, and Jump.

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The second edition. the same format as the first printing of the same year except the inclusion of two additional preface leaves. Quarto (27.5 x 22cm). 'Egerton's designs of sporting scenes, social comedy, jokes about the weather &c. are some of the most attractive prints of the period.'- Bryant & Heneage. pp. [4],iv,73. With 23 hand coloured aquatints designed by Michael Egerton & engraved by Geo. Hunt. Some light offsetting from the plates to the text, (but not the other way round), a few light marks to the text leaves. An excellent copy in the publisher's roan-backed boards with printed paper label to front & small bookseller's label, C.Smith, Hannover St. Some light wear. With a later calf-backed clam shell case, gilt. Engraved armorial bookplate of Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st Baron Quenborough & also the Beeleigh Abbey plate. Vg. [Abbey Life 290; Tooley 206; Prideaux 344; Colas 938; Bryant & Heneage 70]. N° de ref. del artículo 12110

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