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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

First Edition. Poor copy bound in the original leather. Front board missing. Wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; [4], 365, [1] p. ; 18 cm. Notes; Title vignette engraved by J. Fraser. Contents; The mayor of Garrat / by Samuel Foote, Esq. - The reprisal / by Dr. Smollet - The devil to pay / by Charles Coffey, Esq. - The lying valet / by David Garrick, Esq. - The virgin unmask'd / by Henry Fielding, Esq. - The lyar / by Samuel Foote, Esq. - The cunning man / by Dr. Charles Burney - The old maid / by Mr. Murphy - Thomas and Sally / by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff - Crononhotonthologos / by Mr. Henry Carey - Neck or nothing / by David Garrick, Esq. - The lottery / by Henry Fielding, Esq. - The musical lady / by George Coleman, Esq. - Midas / by Kane O'Hara, Esq. Subjects; English farces 18th century. Subjects; British Stage. Farces. Genre; Illustrated. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Black leather over stiff card, 48mo (3-3/8 inches [8.7 cm] tall), pp. unpaginated [216, plus 2 blank leaves at rear], printed on watermarked paper with reckoning tables throughout, "New Stamp Duties" page dated Sept. 1st, 1815. Volume with rubs and wear to extremities, closing strap has a one inch tear near it's base with leather starting to separate near it's tip, text with some toning, a few pencil notations and faint tide lines to text block edges, lacks a front free endpaper (if indeed ever present). An uncommon Edinburgh imprint. Ready Reckoners were a popular go-to calculating resource for local traders, farmers and merchants in the early 1800's as most common folk were still quite likely to be unskilled in math computation. A scarce survivor - given its intended use and this miniature format; with just one edition [also 216 pp.] published by Mundell, Doig & Stevenson, Edin. (1807) and one 1818 edition (published by Doig, Stirling & Slade, Edin.) located in OCLC, held by Trinity College Library Dublin and the National Library of Scotland. Ref. OCLC accessed 04/16.