Lot 394
Swearing.- Boyle (Robert) A Free Discourse against Customary Swearing..., first edition, by R.R. for Thomas Cockerill, 1695 & another (2)
Hammer Price: £550
Description
Swearing.- Boyle (Robert) A Free Discourse against Customary Swearing. And a Dissuasive from Cursing, first edition, engraved portrait by Robert White, cancel title mounted on stub, advertisement leaf at end, an excellent clean copy, engraved bookplate of Sir Richard Vyvyan Bt., contemporary panelled sprinkled calf, rubbed, splits to joints, some repaired, [Fulton 197; Wing B3978], by R.R. for Thomas Cockerill, 1695 § [?Tod (Thomas)], "T.Meanwell". On Common Swearing. To the Publisher of the Edinburgh Magazine, 8pp., drop-head title, double column, pagination shaved at head, disbound, [Edinburgh], [c.1785], 8vo (2)
⁂ The second item was previously bound with others dated 1782/3 in a volume labelled "Tod's Miscella[nies] therefore ESTC's attribution to Tod is likely to be correct but their date of c.1795 is probably too late. ESTC lists 2 copies in the National Library of Scotland and 4 in America.
Description
Swearing.- Boyle (Robert) A Free Discourse against Customary Swearing. And a Dissuasive from Cursing, first edition, engraved portrait by Robert White, cancel title mounted on stub, advertisement leaf at end, an excellent clean copy, engraved bookplate of Sir Richard Vyvyan Bt., contemporary panelled sprinkled calf, rubbed, splits to joints, some repaired, [Fulton 197; Wing B3978], by R.R. for Thomas Cockerill, 1695 § [?Tod (Thomas)], "T.Meanwell". On Common Swearing. To the Publisher of the Edinburgh Magazine, 8pp., drop-head title, double column, pagination shaved at head, disbound, [Edinburgh], [c.1785], 8vo (2)
⁂ The second item was previously bound with others dated 1782/3 in a volume labelled "Tod's Miscella[nies] therefore ESTC's attribution to Tod is likely to be correct but their date of c.1795 is probably too late. ESTC lists 2 copies in the National Library of Scotland and 4 in America.