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[Hazlitt (William)] Liber Amoris; or, the New Pygmalion, first edition, half-title, engraved vignette title (browned), original cloth-backed boards, paper label to spine, uncut, spine faded, preserved in later cloth drop-front box, 1823 § Woodland (Miss) Matilda Mortimer; or False Pride, second edition, engraved frontispiece, contemporary ink signatures to title, occasional spotting, original boards, uncut, paper label chipped, M.J.Godwin at the Juvenile Library, 1814 § Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded, 80pp., engraved frontispiece and 2 plates, contemporary ink inscription to verso of frontispiece and rear pastedown, no endpapers, contemporary marbled boards, joints split, spine worn, [Not in ESTC], R.Shaw...and R.Reepe, [c.1791], rubbed, 8vo et infra (3)

⁂ The first is a thinly-veiled autobiographical account of the author's infatuation with his landlady's daughter, an unreciprocated attachment which caused him great distress.

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[Hazlitt (William)] Liber Amoris; or, the New Pygmalion, first edition, half-title, engraved vignette title (browned), original cloth-backed boards, paper label to spine, uncut, spine faded, preserved in later cloth drop-front box, 1823 § Woodland (Miss) Matilda Mortimer; or False Pride, second edition, engraved frontispiece, contemporary ink signatures to title, occasional spotting, original boards, uncut, paper label chipped, M.J.Godwin at the Juvenile Library, 1814 § Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded, 80pp., engraved frontispiece and 2 plates, contemporary ink inscription to verso of frontispiece and rear pastedown, no endpapers, contemporary marbled boards, joints split, spine worn, [Not in ESTC], R.Shaw...and R.Reepe, [c.1791], rubbed, 8vo et infra (3)

⁂ The first is a thinly-veiled autobiographical account of the author's infatuation with his landlady's daughter, an unreciprocated attachment which caused him great distress.

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