[REEVE] | The Old English Baron, 1778

From the Library of the Earls of Haddington

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The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story. For Edward and Charles Dilly, 1778

8vo, FIRST EDITION THUS, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with morocco label, all edges speckled red, browning, final blank detaching, offsetting from frontispiece, small chip to title-page, boards worn

The story was first published anonymously the year before under the title 'The Champion of Virtue'.

LITERATURE:

ESTC T129762

PROVENANCE:

George Baillie (1644-1738), engraved armorial bookplate applied posthumously; Hon. George Baillie (c. 1721-1797), signature on title; thence by descent to the Earls of Haddington

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