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From the Library of the Earls of Haddington

HAYWOOD | Memoirs of a certain island adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia, 1725

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December 10, 12:51 PM GMT

Estimate

600 - 800 GBP

Lot Details

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From the Library of the Earls of Haddington


HAYWOOD, ELIZA

Memoirs of a certain island adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia. Written by a celebrated author of that country. Now translated into English. Printed, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1725


8vo, FIRST EDITION, with p. 25 misnumbered 52, half-title, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, contemporary speckled and panelled calf, spine gilt with Baillie’s golden fleece motif, lacking key, browning and foxing throughout, slight defect to upper board, outer spine splitting, bumped


LITERATURE:

ESTC T75393


PROVENANCE:

George Baillie (1644-1738), engraved armorial bookplate applied


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