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- Collection: History 96: History of the Book
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Grose. Format.
Full view of pages 16, 17, 48 and 49 of "A Guide to Health, Riches, Beauty, and Honour." Entries contain eighteenth-century British advertisements, organized by number and topic, with the author, publication, and original date of publication listed.
Paul. Title page.
Title page for George Paul's "Thoughts on the Alarming Process of the Gaol Fever" on page 65 of the book. The page is directly after the last page of Grose's text with no paper in between the two. The book was rebound in 1876 by binder Jeffries & Son…
Binding
New binding of A Compendious System of Astronomy
History of Venice. Robert Kitchen Signature (1672).
Signature by "History of Venice" owner Robert Kitchen on title page. Dated 1672.
Rycaut. Title page close-up.
A close-up of the publication information of the Title page from Paul Rycaut's The Present State of the Ottoman Empire.
Grose. Page iv. Marginalia
One of the few pages in the book that contains marginalia. In Grose's preface, he refers to Mr. Lattese's entry as "23" which is crossed out in pencil; next to it, "25" has been written in. It is possible that a reader was correcting the location of…
Grose. Preface.
Excerpts from Grose's preface to "A Guide to Health." Grose's orginal writing in the book consists of only his eight-page preface, in which he employs a sarcastic tone to introduce the content of the advertisements.
History of Venice. Inside Back Cover.
Unidentified markings on the inside back cover of Paruta's "History of Venice".
History of Venice. Page 133
Page 133 of Paruta's "History of Venice". Close up of handwritten correction made to the text. Previous owner crossed out original word and replaced it with an indecipherable handwritten word.