Provenance

First two endpapers.

Upper right-hand corner lists price of purchase. Lists Jeffries & Son, Bristol as the binder. Date of binding December 18, 1876. "Paul, Gaol Fever bound in at end."

Doggett's catalog stamp.

Doggett's Bookplate. Depicts St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol. Pastedown on marbled flyleaf.

Zoomed in image of bookplate.

Back cover marbled endpaper.

This copy of A Guide to Health, Beauty, Riches, and Honour, published in 1783, is from the Tisch Library Special Collections. Tufts University acquired the text in February 2014 from Blackwell, Oxford at a price of £2,000. This price is recorded on the upper right-hand corner of the first endpaper. The text is printed in octavo format; Grose’s text is sixty-four pages long and Paul’s is forty. The English Short Title Catalogue records only eleven other copies of the text, located in the United States, the British Isles, and New Zealand. Three editions of the text exist; the two others were printed in 1785 and 1796, both for Samuel Hooper, a bookseller in London. This text was previously owned by Edward and Hugh Greenfield Doggett of Bristol, marked by their catalog stamp and bookplate. Edward and Hugh Greenfield Dogget are recorded as having worked in printing and law, respectively, and were residents of Bristol. Their bookplate is pasted down on marbled flyleaf, which lines the front and back cover of the book. Marbled flyleaf was typical for 18th and 19th century European printed texts.