Instructions for binding handwritten in pencil on the title page of A Guide to Health, Beauty, Riches, and Honour, by Francis Grose, Printed for Samuel Hooper (London, 1783). The note reads "Bound in calf - let the edges remain precisely as they…
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.
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…