[Varlo (Charles)] Miscellany of Knowledge...By Several Gentlemen...Poetry...By an Irish Gentleman, now in America. A Twelve-Month's Tour, of Observations, Through America..., second edition, list of subscribers, some light soiling to title, L1 short tear to foot without loss, O6 portion of loss to fore-edge affecting some text, scattered foxing, contemporary marbled calf, morocco spine label, spine and extremities rubbed, [Sabin 49452], Printed for the Editor, 1792 § Locke (John) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 2 vol., tenth edition, with large Additions, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved bookplate, ownership name of James Spedding to pastedowns, vol. 1 G4 small paper-flaws to foot affecting signature, vol. 2 last few ff. of Index with small worming within text, occasional marginal worming elsewhere, gutter cracked at points but holding, vol. 2 front free endpapers loose, contemporary panelled calf, lacking spine labels, rubbed and worn, for Arthur Bettesworth & Charles Hitch, 1731; and others 17th and 18th century, various subjects, 8vo & 4to (8)
⁂ The first mentioned includes the poem "On General Washington; An Allegory" (pp.1-7) and "A Twelve-Month's Tour Through America" (pp.251-94), in which the author dined with George Washington and comments on him and his wife.
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