Young Hocus, Or The History of John Bull, During The Years 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789. A Novel. By Sir W---- L----, K----. With Notes, Critical and Explanatory, by the following Persons . . .
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Book
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Main Collection post-1900
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Publication Year
1790
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(GEN) (Bound with); Memoirs and Gallantries of a Prince of the Blood of Abo, and The Heraldry of Nature; or, Instructions for the King at Arms. The end of volume I indicates that the novel goes on to at least a second volume, but Block notes that no further volumes were published. A ìContentsî leaf has been inserted between the Editorís Preface and the Dedication. It is unlabeled and numbered incorrectly for its location, but it does appear to be part of the original binding. The last leaf of signature F has also been misbound as the first leaf of that same signature. The text is complete.||(CON) [-]1, a6, A*6, B-M6, N3, Contents.[-]1r Title, verso blank; a1rv Editorís Preface; [Contents]; a2r-A*6v Dedication; B1r-N3r Text, N3v blank.||(REF) Block, p. 257; Garside, Raven, and Schˆwerling, 1790:51 (citing the date as 1790); Four copies (L, CLU-S/C, MH, MBAt) in ESTC;||(PRV) From the Library of John Charles Hardy, with his bookplate, and a later bookplate bearing the name John D.F. Thornton.||(BIN) Contemporary calf gilt, dark green label.||(GEN) Anonymous
Biblio Notes
1v. 12mo.
Number of Copies
1