Catalogue of the splendid and valuable library of an eminent collector [i.e. W. Prest] ... which will be sold by Mr. Evans ... on ... May 14, and two following days / [William Prest].

  • Prest, William.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Catalogue of the splendid and valuable library of an eminent collector [i.e. W. Prest] ... which will be sold by Mr. Evans ... on ... May 14, and two following days / [William Prest]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [3] ^7 Bratbwait’s Law of Drinking and the Smoaking Age, with the two scarce frontispieces, by Marshall^ very rare, in oiwe morocco, by Lewis, - - 1617 2S Butler’s Hudibras, 3 vol. cuts, elegantly bound with em¬ bossed sides, gilt leaves, - - , 1710 29 Berdoe on the Influence of Electric Fluid on Aninfated Beings, - - - - 1771 30 Beloe’s Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, 6 vol. elegantly hound in russia, by Mackinlay, with joints, and gilt leaves, - - - 1807 31 Brydges’s Censura Literaria^ or Account of Old English Books, 10 vol. elegantly bound, gilt leaves, 1805 32 - British Bibliographer, 4 vol. portraits, scarce, fine copy, elegantly hound, gilt leaves, ' - 1810 33 .— -- ReStituta, or Characters of Old English Books, 4 vol. elegantly hound, by Hering, - IS 14 33* -- B es Literaria3, Bibliographical and Critical, 3 vol. in 2, only 75 copies printed, in russia, gilt leaves, Rome and Naples, 1821-22 -Anti-Critic, Literary Criticisms, only 75 copies printed, - - . Geneva, 1822 - Cimelia, sen Examen Criticum Librorurn ex 34 35 Diariis Literariis selectum, only 75 copies printed, Geneva, 1823 3e - Valerianus de Litteratorum Infelicitate, edente Brydges, only 87 copies printed, - - 1821. 37 -- Polyanthea Librorurn Vetustiorum, only 75 printed, - „ . Genev. 1822 38 Brydges’s Ruminator, 2 vol. - - 1813 39 -Arthur Fitz-Albini, a Novel, 2 vol. fine paper, only 12 copies printed, - - 1798 40 --- Coningsby, a Tragic Tale, ~ Paris, 1819 41 -Lord Brokenhurst, a Tragic Tale, Geneva, I8I9 42 --Sir Ralph Willoughby,*an Historical Tale, Florence, 1820 43 —--Poems, - - - I8O7 44 -Note on the Suppression of his own Memoirs, Paris, 1825 45 —--Letters on the Character and Genius of Lord Byron, - - - * - 1824 46 —-On the Population and Riches of Nations, Paris, 1819 47 Lord Byron’s Poems, first edition, interleaved, fine copy, in red morocco, gilt leaves, - - Newark, 1807 48 Byron’s Liberal, No. 1 to 4, - - 1822 49 Budgell’s Memoirs of the Boyles, elegantly hound, gilt leaves, _ . - 1737