Verlag: John C. Wright, Harbor Springs, MI, 1917
Anbieter: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. 148pp. Rubbed and edgeworn, previous owner's inscription on the inside front cover, hinges starting, else good.
Verlag: Leeds: Printed for Griffith Wright and John Binns [c.1775]., 1775
Anbieter: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, Vereinigtes Königreich
Third edition, 12mo, 242, (9 index, 1) pp. Signature of Mary Wilkinson of Penrith, dated 1810, to the front blank, small closed tear to the outer edge of the penultimate leaf. Modern black quarter morocco, marbled sides. The author is described as "well known to have been for Forty years past one of the most noted Cooks in the County of York". Maclean p. 112. Originally published in 1767.
Verlag: printed by C. Roworth for John Wright; Leigh and Sothebys; T. Payne, London, 1801
Anbieter: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, USA
Erstausgabe
First edition, 4to, pp. [4], v, [1], [2] & unpaginated text in double column; original paper-covered boards, small chips out at spine extremities, but generally a good, sound copy in an unrestored state. Courtney & Smith, p. 70: "Mason first attacked Johnson in his edition of Poems by Thomas Hoccleve, 1796 . where he says: "One should really suspect, that the lexicographer had not collected the authorities for himself, nor even revised them when collected for him. Such a supposition might clear him of downright stupidity, but to the impeachment of his common honesty in dealing with the public." An American edition appeared in 1803. No copy of this British edition has come to auction since 1975. 18 copies in OCLC, only 7 (NYU, Huntington, Yale, Williams, Penn State, Georgetown, and Smith) in the US, to which we can add ISU.