Antiquity; or The Wise Instructer: Being a Collection of the most Valuable Admonitions and Sentences, Compendiously put together, From an infinite Variety of the most celebrated Christian and Heathen Writers, Divine, Moral, Historical, Poetical, and Political
Bristol, Eng. S. Farley, 1770. Hardcover. xxvi, [2], 324 p.; 18 cm. Signatures: [a]-b6 c2 A-2D6 (12mo). Original quarter calf with plain paper over boards. Originally published anonymously under the title Politeuphuia; generally attributed to Nicholas Ling. Sometimes attributed to John Bodenham, who planned the collection. Includes a 20-page list of subscribers, many of them residents of Bristol, where this edition was printed for Jonathan Brooks of Bristol. This is the first Brooks edition. Lacking pp. 159-166; otherwise in Good+ Condition: rubbed with minor loss at ends of spine and loss of some paper over the boards; lacking both free endpapers; heavy finger soiling on a few pages. Good +. Item #003526
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