Retrospection: or A Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and Their Consequences, which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years have Presented to the View of Mankind [etc.]
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Book
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Category
Main Collection pre-1900
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Publication Year
1801
Publisher
Abstract
Retrospection: or A Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and Their Consequences, which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years have Presented to the View of Mankind. By Hester Lynch Piozzi. With A Portrait Of The Author. In Two Volumes.
Description
(GEN) With an engraved portrait frontispiece. The terminal subscribersí list is for the map advertised at 3Y3r, and not for the present text.||(CON) Vol I: A3, B-3L4, 3M3, Contents. Engraved portrait frontispiece; A1r Title, A1v Imprint of T. Gillet, A2r-B2v Preface; B3r-B4v Contents; C1r-3M3r Text, 3M3v blank.Vol II: [A]3, B-3Y4, Contents. [A]1r Title, [A]1v Imprint of T. Gillet; [A]2r-[A]3v Contents; B1r-3Y2v Text; 3Y3r Publisherís Advertisement; 3Y3v-3Y4v Subscribersí List.||(REF) Rothschild 1553; CBEL II, p. 843; Lowndes p. 1872; Twenty-two copies in RLG NUC;||(PRV) With the contemporary armorial bookplate of Sir Marcus Somerville, and his ink signature on the title page.||(BIN) Contemporary diced half calf, marbled boards, spines gilt.
Biblio Notes
2v. 4to.
Number of Copies
1