[Literature] Wagstaff, Simon (Jonathan Swift) A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, According to the Most Polite Mode and Method Now Used At Court, and in the Best Companies of England... London: Printed for B. Motte, and C. Bathurst, 1738. First edition, first issue. 8vo. (4), lxxxvi, (2), 215, (1) pp. With preliminary ad leaf facing title-page, and head-piece depicting Neptune on p. (1) of introduction. Contemporary full mottled calf, decoratively stamped in gilt, red morocco spine label, boards blistered, small nick to front board, joints slightly rubbed, spine slightly blistered and chipped; edges speckled red; pp. xxxix-xlii slightly proud; scattered minor spotting to text; book-plate of John Ward on front paste-down, and with his intials on recto of preliminary ad leaf; additional book-plate of Arnold Muirhead on front paste-down. [Teerink-Scouten 761]. ESTC 006367245.
[Literature] Wagstaff, Simon (Jonathan Swift) A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, According to the Most Polite Mode and Method Now Used At Court, and in the Best Companies of England... London: Printed for B. Motte, and C. Bathurst, 1738. First edition, first issue. 8vo. (4), lxxxvi, (2), 215, (1) pp. With preliminary ad leaf facing title-page, and head-piece depicting Neptune on p. (1) of introduction. Contemporary full mottled calf, decoratively stamped in gilt, red morocco spine label, boards blistered, small nick to front board, joints slightly rubbed, spine slightly blistered and chipped; edges speckled red; pp. xxxix-xlii slightly proud; scattered minor spotting to text; book-plate of John Ward on front paste-down, and with his intials on recto of preliminary ad leaf; additional book-plate of Arnold Muirhead on front paste-down. [Teerink-Scouten 761]. ESTC 006367245.
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