Title: The Pleasures of Human Life:...in a Dozen Dissertations on Male, Female, and Neuter Pleasures... By Hilaris Benevolus, & Co... Author: [Britton, John] Place: London Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme Date: 1807 Description: xvi, 223 pp. With 5 hand-colored etched plates by Thomas Rowlandson; hand-tinted stipple-engraved frontispiece & added pictorial title-page. 6¼x3¾, period tree calf, morocco spine label. First Edition. Scarce satirical offering with Rowlandson's inimitable illustrations, instigated, apparently, by James Beresford's "Miseries of human life; or, The groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy", 1806. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine scuffed and pock-marked, ends and edges worn, joints cracked; light staining and foxing to added title-page and frontispiece, bookseller's catalogue entry affixed to top of "Deprecatory Advertisment" leaf following title-page, else very good, with the bookplate of Winifred Perry. Item number: 178769
Title: The Pleasures of Human Life:...in a Dozen Dissertations on Male, Female, and Neuter Pleasures... By Hilaris Benevolus, & Co... Author: [Britton, John] Place: London Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme Date: 1807 Description: xvi, 223 pp. With 5 hand-colored etched plates by Thomas Rowlandson; hand-tinted stipple-engraved frontispiece & added pictorial title-page. 6¼x3¾, period tree calf, morocco spine label. First Edition. Scarce satirical offering with Rowlandson's inimitable illustrations, instigated, apparently, by James Beresford's "Miseries of human life; or, The groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy", 1806. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine scuffed and pock-marked, ends and edges worn, joints cracked; light staining and foxing to added title-page and frontispiece, bookseller's catalogue entry affixed to top of "Deprecatory Advertisment" leaf following title-page, else very good, with the bookplate of Winifred Perry. Item number: 178769
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