John Aubrey; Oliver Lawson Dick [ed.] - Aubrey&Apos;S Brief Lives

London, Secker & Warburg, 1949. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of biographical sketches from Aubrey, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and twenty-four plates. Collated complete. A collection of biographical sketches written between 1680 and 1693, deemed richly controversial and frequently published with varying levels of completeness. Written by John Aubrey, an English natural philosopher, writer, and antiquary remembered for this original work. Edited from the original manuscripts by Oliver Lawson Dick. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Fading to the spine and boards. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with light shelf wear and chipping to the extremities. Small closed tears to the spine and the rear board, a few of which have been sympathetically repaired with tape to the interior side. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Good.

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