BENEVOLUS, HILARIS [=BERESFORD, JAMES] The pleasures of human life investigated... London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. Stated second edition. Full calf, spine gilt by Morrell. 6 3/4 inches (17 cm), top edge gilt. xvi, 223 pp., with the hand-colored engraved title and frontispiece of wit and melancholy, and five hand-colored plates by Rowlandson. Front joint cracked, holding on hinge, old catalogue description mounted to endpaper. Housed in a protective clamshell case. Provenance: bookplate of Garfield Tourney.
BENEVOLUS, HILARIS [=BERESFORD, JAMES] The pleasures of human life investigated... London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. Stated second edition. Full calf, spine gilt by Morrell. 6 3/4 inches (17 cm), top edge gilt. xvi, 223 pp., with the hand-colored engraved title and frontispiece of wit and melancholy, and five hand-colored plates by Rowlandson. Front joint cracked, holding on hinge, old catalogue description mounted to endpaper. Housed in a protective clamshell case. Provenance: bookplate of Garfield Tourney.
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