Price: £650
Subject: History
Published Date: 1732
Stock Number: 52469
(Your basket is currently empty)being a Miscellaneous Collection of Scarce and Curious Tracts, Historical, Political, Biographical, Satirical, Critical, Characteristical, &c. Prose and Verse. Only to be found in the Cabinets of the Curious. Interspersed with Choice pieces from Original MSS. Vol. I (all published)... Collected by J. Morgan.
Description: 6 parts in 1 vol. (pagination continuous), a few leaves slightly browned, pp. [xii], viii, 96, [ii], 584, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, double gilt fillets on sides, spine richly gilt, red lettering piece, headcap partly defective, the Macclesfield copy with bookplate and blindstamp, goodPublication Details: Printed for the Compiler, and T. Edlin and J. Wilford, 1732
Notes: A reissue of the 1731 edition, with a different title-page, dedication, a list of contents to the whole volume, and the sixth part. Morgan 'was born in the late seventeenth century but little is known about his life. He was the author of numerous books and treatises, the first of which was probably The Phoenix (2 vols., 1707-8) which was revived in 1721 as A Collection of Choice, Scarce and Valuable Tracts. These were the forerunners of his most significant work, the monthly pamphlet, Phoenix Britannicus: a Miscellaneous Collection of Scarce and Curious Tracts. The first number appeared in Jan...more
Bibliography: (ESTC T101295)
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