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dirty. The back margin sewed in.' Rodd thought it eighth
might be identical with the copy sold in 1827 at the Field edition,
sale for £1 19/. od. It was purchased by T. P. Barton of
New York, from Rodd, in 183 f , and bequeathed by Barton
to the Boston Public Library in i8 7<^. It is bound in
green morocco by Mackenzie, and the binder has misplaced
pages f and 8.
An interesting copy, belonging to Mr. Dwight Church No.
of New York, bound in old calf, has the frontispiece, but ^■^^i^* ,
it is cut into at the bottom. Some of the pages of the churciTS^
text are also closely cut. The copy, which measures New York.
f:pg" X 3I-", seems identical with one which was purchased
at Sotheby's, by [Sir] William Tite, in 1 8 y o, for £z6 y /. od.
and sold at the Tite sale in 1 8 74, for £1 1 js. od. Mr. Church's
copy is carefully described in Contributions to English Biblio-
graphy .^Grolier Club, i89y, p. 183.
Mr. Folger, junior, of New York, possesses a perfect No.
copy. This was apparently the copy which belonged to ^^^\
Dr. Richard Farmer, and was for a time in the library of ofNewYork.
Henry F. Sewall of New York, at the sale of whose books in
1897 it fetched ^37 (§185-).
A fourth perfect copy was sold at the Daniel sale in I5^\.yT
18^4, for £\o 19/. o^., and was subsequently in the library of untiaced
E. G. Asay of Chicago. (Daniel)
Oi
two copies
in
the
British
Museum
without
the frontis-
^°p^"
piece
one
is
bound
up with
a
volume
of
pamphlets
in the
t-he™ron-
King's Library, E.
1^72/3.
The
date,
'Aug:
31,' is
written
tispiece.
in
a
contemporary hand above
the
imprint,
and
was
probably
No.
the
day
of publication in the
year
K^yy.
The book
is
in
gj^j^j^^^"
good
condition.
It
measures
yf'' x
i~^"
.
Museum
(2).
The second copy without the frontispiece, which is at No.• • • XXXVIIT
the British
Museum,
is
in the
Grenville
collection (G. 11432).
^^\^^^\^
All the leaves are stained
and
have been mended.
The
Museum
(3).
volume
is
bound
in olive
morocco and measures
5-7" x
i~'
,
This
may
be
the
copy formerly
in
the library of George
Hibbert, of Portland Place,
which was sold
at
the Hibbert
sale
in 1829,
for
£z
6s.
od.
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