STRETCH (Liscombe Maltbee): - The Beauties of History; Or, Pictures of Virtue and Vice, Drawn from Real Life; Designed For the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth. The Third Edition.

London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry. 1777 2 volumes. 12mo, 165 x 93 mms., xxiv, 354 [355 - 360 adverts]; xi [xii blank], 312, including half-title in volume 1 engraved frontispiece in volume one, later half calf, marbled boards, spine richly gilt with titles in gilt; some slight soiling and intermittenit staining of text, but a very good set. First published in 1770, Stretch revised the work for its 7th edition, with a new dedication to Richard Farmer, the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. ESTC T211733 locates copies in BL, Bodleian; National Library of Wales; Princeton, Society of the Cincinnati; University of South Australia (2).

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