8vo, FIRST EDITION, half-title; bound in a volume of pamphlets with 10 other works, including: [Thicknesse, Philip.] A Narrative of what passed between General Sir Harry Erskine and Philip Thicknesse [etc.]. for J. Williams and R. Davis, 1766--[Macaulay, Catherine.] Loose Remarks on Certain Positions .. in Mr Hobbes's Philosophical Rudiments ... With a short sketch of a Democratical Form of Government in a Letter to Signior Paoli. for T. Davies, Robinson and Roberts, T. Cadell, 1767--[Clarke, Edward.] A Defence of the Conduct of the Lieutenant-Governor of ... Minorca. for T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1767--The theatrical campaign, for MDCCLXVI. and MDCCLXVII. for S. Bladon, 1767, and six others, 8vo, half calf on marbled boards, wear to binding

Edward William Vernon Harcourt (1825-91), armorial bookplate

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RARE. No copy of this edition is recorded at auction since 1974.