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D'Anvers, Caleb - The Craftsman, Volume XIV

London, R. Francklin, 1737. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume begins with Issue No. 466, Saturday, June 7, 1735. 359 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, attractive fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, Remains of a former paper repair inside front flap, rubbing to gilt-tooled titles, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry on Penny's Poetry Pages about him. Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, having matriculated in 1716 to St John's College, Oxford, he was expelled there three years later for, he argued, his Whig principles as expressed in his quite popular writings. Known as a satirist of Oxford morals, he became something of a gadfly to many authorities. Moving from Oxford (post-expulsion) to London, he commenced his career in literature.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 32.75 | £UK 28 | JP¥ 5354] Book number 350936

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