Modern Anecdote of The Ancient Family of The Kinkverankotsdarsprakengotchderns: A Tale For Christmas 1779.

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First edition. Small octavo (15.5 x 10.5cm), published at 2s sewed and dedicated to Horace Walpole. 'Why it should be called an Anecdote or Tale does not appear. It might as well been been styled a Novel or a History. Call it what you will it is prettily written, and will afford an agreeable hour's amusement as any thing of its kind we have lately met with.'- G,R & S quoting a contemporary review.pp. [xii],84. The title lighty soiled. Bound in 19th C half calf, gilt, rubbed, with the engraved armorial plate of Richard Monkton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, and his gilt wheatsheaf crest to the cover. Vg. [Block 48; Gardside, Raven & Schowerling 1779.9; Hardy 333; Hazen 169; CBEL II, 832]. N° de ref. del artículo 11741

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