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[Collier (Jeremy, anti-theatrical polemicist and bishop of the nonjuring Church of England, 1650-1726)] The Nature of True Pleasure and the Evil Consequences of False Pleasure. Transcribed by Barth[olome]w Stones, manuscript in an attractive calligraphic hand, in red and black ink, family notes on Stones provenance on fly-leaf, slightly browned, original reversed calf, corners bumped, black morocco gilt label on upper cover, sm. 8vo, [?1695].

⁂ A copy of a philosophical treatise taken from Collier's Miscellanies (1694 & 1695), later collections of which from 1697 were called Essays upon Several Moral Subjects.

Provenance: "This Book was wrote by Mrs. Leeson's Brother B: Stones about the year 1690. B. Stones was Mrs. Terry, my wife's Mothers Brother, he went a Ship Board and was Drowend soon after writing the said Book, this account is given by me P. Terry. My wife Mother was named Mary Leeson and Lived over against the New Church in the Strand London."

Lot 143

[Collier (Jeremy)] The Nature of True Pleasure and the Evil Consequences of False Pleasure, manuscript, in red and black ink, slightly browned, original reversed calf, black morocco label on upper cover, sm. 8vo, [?1695].  

Hammer Price: £200

Description

[Collier (Jeremy, anti-theatrical polemicist and bishop of the nonjuring Church of England, 1650-1726)] The Nature of True Pleasure and the Evil Consequences of False Pleasure. Transcribed by Barth[olome]w Stones, manuscript in an attractive calligraphic hand, in red and black ink, family notes on Stones provenance on fly-leaf, slightly browned, original reversed calf, corners bumped, black morocco gilt label on upper cover, sm. 8vo, [?1695].

⁂ A copy of a philosophical treatise taken from Collier's Miscellanies (1694 & 1695), later collections of which from 1697 were called Essays upon Several Moral Subjects.

Provenance: "This Book was wrote by Mrs. Leeson's Brother B: Stones about the year 1690. B. Stones was Mrs. Terry, my wife's Mothers Brother, he went a Ship Board and was Drowend soon after writing the said Book, this account is given by me P. Terry. My wife Mother was named Mary Leeson and Lived over against the New Church in the Strand London."

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