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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.
Grose. Spine. Lettering piece.
Red lettering piece attached to spine. Edges slightly fraying up - possibly taken from an earlier binding. Reads "A Guide to Health Etc."
Grose. Title page. Handwritten note.
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…
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…