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Auction archive: Lot number 368

Lady's Drawing Room. Being a Faithful Picture of the Great World, first Dublin edition, 1744.

Estimate
£300 - £400
ca. US$389 - US$519
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 368

Lady's Drawing Room. Being a Faithful Picture of the Great World, first Dublin edition, 1744.

Estimate
£300 - £400
ca. US$389 - US$519
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Lady's Drawing Room. Being a Faithful Picture of the Great World. In which the Various Humours of Both Sexes are Display'd. Drawn from the Life: And Interspers'd with Entertaining and Affecting Novels, first Dublin edition, occasional browning, the odd rust spot, occasionally obscuring a few letters of text, ink ownership inscription of Isabella Monck to title, contemporary calf, worm hole to spine, a little rubbed and scuffed, large 12mo, Dublin, for George and Alexander Ewing, at the Angel and Bible, in Dame-Street, Booksellers, 1746. ⁂ Scarce, ESTC lists 4 copies only. First published in 1744, includes amorous novels, moral histories and imaginary voyages such as 'The History of Rodomond and the Beautiful Indian' and 'The True History of Henrietta de Bellgrave, A Woman born only for Calamaties'.

Auction archive: Lot number 368
Auction:
Datum:
30 May 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

Lady's Drawing Room. Being a Faithful Picture of the Great World. In which the Various Humours of Both Sexes are Display'd. Drawn from the Life: And Interspers'd with Entertaining and Affecting Novels, first Dublin edition, occasional browning, the odd rust spot, occasionally obscuring a few letters of text, ink ownership inscription of Isabella Monck to title, contemporary calf, worm hole to spine, a little rubbed and scuffed, large 12mo, Dublin, for George and Alexander Ewing, at the Angel and Bible, in Dame-Street, Booksellers, 1746. ⁂ Scarce, ESTC lists 4 copies only. First published in 1744, includes amorous novels, moral histories and imaginary voyages such as 'The History of Rodomond and the Beautiful Indian' and 'The True History of Henrietta de Bellgrave, A Woman born only for Calamaties'.

Auction archive: Lot number 368
Auction:
Datum:
30 May 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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