Essays moral and literary. Tenth edition and Eleventh edition. (Two volumes.)

KNOX, Vicesimus, Late Follow of St. John's College, Oxford.

Verlag: London: Printed fpr Charles Dilly, in the Poultry. MDCCLXXXVII [1787.] MDCCLXVVVIII [1788.]

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Two volumes. Mixed editions. Duodecimo. 166mm. Pp. [12], [1] 2 - 360. Plates [1]. Title page vignette ; [8], [1] 2 - 396 [3] [1] blank. Plates [1]. Title page vignette. The essays are numbered continuously, Vol.1. No's I - LXXXI; Vol. 2. No's LXXXII - CLXXIX. Additions were added to later editions The contents of both volumes are clean. Both volumes are similarly bound in contemporary calf lightly rubbed, smooth spines divided into compartments by single line gold fillets, with gold volume numbers. Vol.1. spine chipped at the toe, Vol.2 chipped at the head. Overall, near very good copies. Knox, Vicesimus (1752?1821), headmaster and writer, was born at Newington Green, Middlesex. He was educated at St. John's College , Oxford, he succeeded his father as master of the school at Tunbridge, over which he presided for thirty-three years. He wrote a number of books of which his Essays are possibly the best. remembered, they were published on the recommendation of Samuel Johnson. To persons of every description, but especially to young persons, the Essays of our author are invaluable: their first praise is tat they recommend, in a most fscinating manner, all that is good and great; and, secondly, they are in a high degree calculated to form the taste and excite a spirit of literary enthusiasm' - Drake's Essays, vol. v.365. For more details see of Knox see ODNB. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000803

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Titel: Essays moral and literary. Tenth edition and...

Verlag: London: Printed fpr Charles Dilly, in the Poultry. MDCCLXXXVII [1787.] MDCCLXVVVIII [1788.]

Einband: Hardcover

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