£140
18th CENTURY PLAYS, PAMPHLETS & ESSAYS
A volume of plays bound together, comprising
Rich (John) A Spirit of Contradiction
Second edition, London, T. Lownds, 1760
Murphy (Arthur) The Way to Keep Him
Third edition, London, p. Vaillant, 1760
Foote (Samuel) The Minor
Fourth Edition, J. Coote et al., London, 1760
Townly (Charles) The Courtezans
London, T. Lewis, 1760
With part of the text of Tytler's Historical and Critical Enquiry into the Evidence Produced by the Earls of Murray and Morton, against Mary Queen of Scots also bound in, in full period calf, armorial bookplate of Henry Howard of Greystoke, 8vo
With a volume of pamphlets in similar style, comprising
Voltaire An Essay upon the Civil Wars of France
Dublin, William Ross, 1760
Bowdler (John) Reform or Ruin: Take Your Choice!
Third edition, Dublin, John Milliken, 1798
Gibbon (Edward) Essia sur L'etude de la Litterature
Dublin, Guillaume Hallhead, 1777
A Letter of Sir Henry Tichborne to his Lady of the Siege of Drogheda
Drogheda, John Fleming 1772
Ranby (John) A Narrative of the Last Illness of the Right Honourable The Earl of Orford
Second edition, London, John and Paul Knapton, 1745, with Appendix, bound in marbled calf, armorial bookplate of Sir Walter Synnot, binding split
Taylor (Samuel) An Essay Intended to establish a Standard Universal System of Stenography, or Short-hand Writing
Third Edition, London, W, Baynes, 1801
Sheffield (John, Lord) Observations on the Commerce of the American States
London, J. Debrett, 1784
Etc. (6 volumes)
Sir Walter Synnot (1742-1821), High Sheriff of Armagh.
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