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Editorial: London: Printed for R. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-Noster-Row, [circa 1750]., 1750
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Añadir al carrito2 vols., 12mo. Title-leaves, which may well be cancels, browned at edges from the binding turn-ins, with that of Vol. II very slightly chipped at the extreme lower edge, otherwise a fine, fresh copy. Contemporary calf; recently rebacked with gilt spines and the lower cover to the second volume replaced. Two early ownership inscr…iptions on front pastedowns, S. Warren and S. Skinner, along with an early and small printed label showing a sheep, or possibly a dog, surmounted by a crown and printed "Case F. Shelf 1." On the facing free endpapers is the modern blindstamp "Brewster Rogerson." Apparently one of three issues of what seems to be the same work, a series of essays and poems collected by topic, e.g. friendship, love, taste, "luxury in eating and drinking" - "A great man loves Champagne, and hates Port. . ." Vol. II begins with "Eliza: a Novel," and continues with subjects like"Commerce," "Modern Education," and "Moral Characters." One of the three issues was printed in Birmingham for R. Aris with the title dated 1749, and another in London with the title dated 1751 and the publisher given as "R. Baldwin, jun." The online resources give the title for both of these as "The Polite Companion: containing Essays on Various Subjects. Illustrated with Passages from the most excellent Poets, Orators, Philosophers, and Historians." The present issue, with the more elaborate title and "R. Baldwin" imprint, could have appeared at the same time as Aris s or perhaps a little later, but one would expect the 1751 "R. Baldwin, Jun." issue to be subsequent to that for "R. Baldwin," presumably the senior. I hasten to add, however, that these two Richard Baldwins are hard to distinguish, as it is not clear exactly when the senior retired. It also appears that at some point in the early 1750s the junior dropped "jun." from his imprint. All three issues are rare, with ESTC, OCLC, and COPAC locating two copies of this one, William and Mary, and Yale, both conjecturing 1751 as the imprint date. Brewster Rogerson was an eighteenth-century scholar and horticulturalist who died in 2015 at the age of 94.