ENGLISH LIBERTY Or the British Lion Roused; Containiny [sic] the Sufferings of John Wilkes, Esq; from the First of his Persecution, Down to the Present Time. [Volume I which was first published bound from the parts issues].
PlacePub
London
Publisher
T. Marsh in Black-Friars, and sold by all the News-Carriers in Town and Country.
Date
1769 according to British Library
Illustrations
Description
195x120mm (in 4's) original sugar paper wrappers bound into half blue roan spine gilt titled (old auction ticket removal stain/tips worn). Uncut edges with some dusting 378pp end of 1st volume (all published at this time) but tipped to rear inner side of sugar paper covers "To the Public The sale of this work being so very extensive, occasions the Publisher to acquaint the Reader, that one Number of Vol.II of the Sufferings of John Wilkes Esq. will be regularly published every other Day." Three library catalogue entries of the 2 volume set mention a folding portrait but it is not clear whether this was issued with this first volume. This is the Clement K Shorter copy with his handsome art nouveau bookplate with the Walter Crane monogram. Shorter (1857-1926) a book collector and editor of the Illustrated London News and several other journals was also founder The Sketch (1893), The Sphere (1900), and The Tatler (1903). Scarce (ESTC T74070).
Booknumber
V73283
Price
Price: GBP 375.00 or USD 461.00
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