Amsterdam, C.H. Schneider, 1767

8vo. (18 x 11.5 cm), 4 unnumbered pages + lxxx + 106 pages. Readable throughout, but the pages heavily browned, with some spotting. Bound in brown leather, a black leather label on the spine. The binding rubbed and worn, with loss of leather on the corners and at the top and bottom of the spine. The boards firmly attached, nut the leather cracked along part of the hinges.

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London, Simon Miller, 1670

With the heraldic bookplate of Sir Frederick Evelyn, great grandson of the diarist John Evelyn, and the ’J E’ ticket inserted in the books of the John Evelyn library, when they were sold by Christies in 1977-8.

In the ‘Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature’ (1928), this translation is said to be by John Evelyn himself. This is, perhaps, the author’s own copy. Read more about this item about The Moral Practice of the Jesuits. From the John Evelyn library.

London, J. Johnson, 1793

Not in the British Library, or Library of Congress Catalogues, I have not traced another surviving copy. Read more about this item about Unrecorded Eighteenth Century Book

  A fascinating collection of contemporary reaction to the works of Nineteenth Century novelists; the author’s criticized include M.E. Braddon (British Review 1865), Wilke Collins, Maria Edgeworth (Quarterly Review 1814), Jane Eyre (North British Review 1849 - along with two other novels) and many, many more. The volume also contains articles about novelists of the Eighteenth Century, including Sterne, Richardson and Jane Austen (St. Read more about this item about Collection of Victorian Reviews including M.E. Braddon, Wilkie Collins etc. etc.