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<p>[QUOTE="AntiqueBytes, post: 9562790, member: 13195"]I have this book "Fifty years' correspondence, Inglish, French, and Latin, in proze and verse; between geniusses ov boath sexes, and James Elphinston: in eight pocket-vollumes....Volume 7.'</p><p><br /></p><p>Printed by Ritchardson, et al. London. 1794. Front cover and first endpaper are detached, about top third of spine leather is mssing, otherwise binding is solid and textblock is clean. Bookplate of "H. Scofield, Library" on front endpaper.</p><p><br /></p><p>I cannot tell if its supposed to be a comedy or not. I wrote to Adam the bookseller from Pawn Stars if he ever found old books that eventually turned out to be comedy/ satire but not appearing to be from the start, and he wrote me a nice letter back asking me to send some photos to him. Haven't heard back from him yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'll post some pages but not sure how easy it will be to read them. </p><p><br /></p><p>It may be necessary to right click save and then look at in image editor.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]457865[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457866[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457867[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457869[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457870[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457871[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="AntiqueBytes, post: 9562790, member: 13195"]I have this book "Fifty years' correspondence, Inglish, French, and Latin, in proze and verse; between geniusses ov boath sexes, and James Elphinston: in eight pocket-vollumes....Volume 7.' Printed by Ritchardson, et al. London. 1794. Front cover and first endpaper are detached, about top third of spine leather is mssing, otherwise binding is solid and textblock is clean. Bookplate of "H. Scofield, Library" on front endpaper. I cannot tell if its supposed to be a comedy or not. I wrote to Adam the bookseller from Pawn Stars if he ever found old books that eventually turned out to be comedy/ satire but not appearing to be from the start, and he wrote me a nice letter back asking me to send some photos to him. Haven't heard back from him yet. I'll post some pages but not sure how easy it will be to read them. It may be necessary to right click save and then look at in image editor. [ATTACH=full]457865[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457866[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457867[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457869[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457870[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457871[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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