Lot 384
Orientalist (The): A Volume of Tales after the Eastern-Taste, first edition, Dublin, 1764.
Hammer Price: £1,600
Description
Orientalist (The): A Volume of Tales after the Eastern-Taste, first edition, 7pp. advertisements, very occasional light marking or soiling, ink ownership inscription dated 1823 to title, contemporary calf, red morocco label to spine, spine a little faded, some marking to covers, large 12mo, Dublin, by James Hoey, junior, 1764.
⁂ A scarce collection of oriental tales after the fashion of the then in-vogue Arabian Nights. The author is given as 'the Author of Roderick Random, Sir Lancelot Greaves, &c.' (i.e. Tobias Smollett), but this attribution is highly disputed.
Description
Orientalist (The): A Volume of Tales after the Eastern-Taste, first edition, 7pp. advertisements, very occasional light marking or soiling, ink ownership inscription dated 1823 to title, contemporary calf, red morocco label to spine, spine a little faded, some marking to covers, large 12mo, Dublin, by James Hoey, junior, 1764.
⁂ A scarce collection of oriental tales after the fashion of the then in-vogue Arabian Nights. The author is given as 'the Author of Roderick Random, Sir Lancelot Greaves, &c.' (i.e. Tobias Smollett), but this attribution is highly disputed.
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