- Prolusions; or, Select Pieces of Antient Poetry, Compiled with Great Care from Their Several Originals, and Offer'd to the Publick As Specimens of the Integrity That Should Be Found in the Editions of Worthy Authors. In Three Parts, Containing I: The Notbrowne Mayde; Master Sackvile's Induction; and Overbury's Wife; II: Edward the Third, a Play, Thought to Be Writ by Shakespeare; III: Those Excellent Didactic Poems, Initl'd Nosce Teipsum, Written by Sir John Davis. With a Preface

London, printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, 1760. Hardcover. One of the first books printed on wove paper in Europe, it is printed on Whatman's wove paper. According to the website devoted to that paper, Whimsie com, most copies of this book contain no watermarks, but this copy does have a watermark, on p. 85 of the Edward III section. On the question of priority, see also Dart Hunter - Papermaking; the History and Technique of an Ancient Craft, p. 125. Full leather with gilt edges. Extremities and backstrip rubbed; endpapers rubbed and edge-browned; pages faintly foxed; corners lacking on rear blank; otherwise very good condition. Three parts in one volume, separately paged. .

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