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16Mo Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Revised. 493pp. Brown boards, golden black-labeled lettering on spine. Text is clean on unmarked natural pages. Hinges are secure with slight separation, textblock is square with bumped corners. Good condition for its age, moderate++ overall shelf/timewear, boardwear, spottage and abrading on boards and spine, spine label is chipped, faint numbers written on inside front, insect damage on lower foredge corner of pages and board, foxing and blush throughout.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. London: Longman Hurst Rees, Orme, 1823, Eighteenth Edition bound with other works as called for. Full leather binding, gilt titles, decorative gilt compartments, gilt borders to the boards, blind tooled dentelles, marbled paste downs and end papers. Rev. Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832), Vicar of Kew and Petersham, was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. His Lacon, "is one of the most excellent collection of apothegms in the language," and some of the sayings may be found today in Bartlett's Quotations. The life of a vicar could not contain the enthusiasms and eccentricities of the author, and gambling became his passion, as well as collecting paintings and wine. He fled England and his creditors, for two years touring the United States, and then settling in Paris. It is said that in two years he cleared £25,000 at the tables. "A dread of an impending surgical operation so preyed upon his mind, that he blew his brains out whilst on a visit to Major Sherwell of Fontainebleau." - quotations from Allibone. The poem The Conflagration of Moscow concerns Napoleon. Vol. I xiii, 267pp including the index. Vol. II v, 184pp. Remarks on the Talents of Byron 56pp. Conflagration of Moscow vii, 50pp plus 2pp index. Approximately 8 ¾ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles on twin labels, 4 decorative blind tooled bands, gilt decoration to the compartments, outer tips of the spine are also gilt, rubbed top and tail, marked and worn. Joints good condition rubbed and worn. Corners good condition bumped and worn with minor loss. Boards good condition full leather binding, with gilt borders and blind tooled detail, some damp staining to the upper board, colour has faded in places. Page edges good condition top edge darkened, all marbled. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition intact. Paste downs good condition marbled with blind tooled dentelles. End papers good condition marbled, subsequent end papers tanned and foxed. Title good condition all title pages tanned and foxed. Pages good condition previous owner's inscription on the reverse of the front end paper and a previous owner's signature on one of the front free end papers, lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Binding good condition. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1823 Binding: Hardback.

New York: Charles Wells, 1836. "Complete in One Volume. Revised Edition." Small octavo. xvi, [1], 18493, [1] pp. All edges gilt. Bound in publisher's decorative morocco, sturdy but scuffed and rubbed. Text with foxing and dampstaining throughout. A sound, solid copy. Unusually, this 1836 New York edition of a popular gift book reached Bardstown, Kentucky, only two years after publication. As seen on the front free endpaper, "J. B. McCown Bardstown Kentucky November 1st 1838" owned this copy. Born in Bardstown, later of Greenville, Kentucky, Joseph Bell McCown (17911869), was a Scottish pioneer and War of 1812 veteran. Advertised as the "First American Stereotype Edition," this edition of Lacon is in a publisher's deluxe binding executed by Charles Wells, the book's publisher and a practicing bookbinder. Gothic Windows to Peacocks #76 records the title in a different binding, English and signed "Barritt & Co." Based in New York, Wells likely imported the plates from London, bound some of the volumes himself, and printed his own title page for these copies. In full crimson morocco, both covers are paneled in gilt with a decorative roll-tooled border and an elaborate central arabesque composed of acanthus and anthemion motifs framing an empty oval reserve. The spine is divided into gilt-ruled compartments, three with a central gilt floral or foliate tool, one compartment lettered "Lacon" in gilt, and additional zigzag rolls along the bands. All edges are gilt, with gilt roll-tooling to the turn-ins. The binding reflects the fashionable 1830s "gift book" aesthetic, here applied to a philosophical work rather than the usual annuals or poetry. A collection of moralizing and pious maxims, Lacon enjoyed wide popularityapparently in Kentucky too. Shaw and Shoemaker 36834.