Author: LANGHORNE, JOHN .
Title: Frederic and Pharamond or the Consolations of Human Life
Description: London: Printed for T. Becket, and P.A. De Hondt, 1769 . 0. 8vo. First edition. 16.2cm x 10cm x 1.5cm. 4/157pp/1p(advert). Clean text. Endpapers lightly toned. Contemporary full tan calf. Hinges and corners carefully strengthened (using archival standard materials). A good copy of a scarce book. **John Langhorne (1735-79) English poet born in Winton, Kirby Stephen. From 1766 he was rector of Blagdon, Somerset. He wrote poems and with his brother, the Rev. William Langhorne (1721-72), translated Plutarch's Lives (6vols, 1770).

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