Meditations and Contemplations. Containing, Meditations among the Tombs...The Twenty-First Edition.
by HERVEY (James):
- Used
- first
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed for John and Francis Rivington..., 1774. 12mo, pp. xxxiii [xxxiv - xxxvi blank], 341 [342 blank, 343 - 347 Table, 348 adverts], engraved frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin; front joint cracked and front cover holding on for dear life, spine defective. Editions of this work in 1774 include the "Thirty-Third" in New York; one with no edition statement but also printed for the Rivingtons; two "New Edition(s)" in Edinburgh with two different imprints, a "Twentieth Edition" in London for the Rivingtons; and a "Twenty-Sixth Edition" for Donaldson in Edinburgh. For this "Twenty-First Edition" ESTC records only the copies at PETm and CtY. COPAC adds the BL.
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- Bookseller
- John Price Antiquarian Books (GB)
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- 4537
- Title
- Meditations and Contemplations. Containing, Meditations among the Tombs...The Twenty-First Edition.
- Author
- HERVEY (James):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- London: Printed for John and Francis Rivington..., 1774
- Keywords
- Christianity religion prose
- Bookseller catalogs
- Christianity;
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