Author: DAVIS (William)
Title: An Olio of Bibliographical and Literary Anecdotes and Memoranda Original and Selected; Including Mr. Cole's Unpublished notes on the Revd. Jas. Bentham's History and Antiquities of Ely Cathedral.
Description: Published by J. Rodwell. 1814. First Edition, vi,126pp., orig. boards, hinges cracked, uncut, a nice copy. Short anecdotal chapters including those on the destruction of libraries under Henry VIII, Elzevir Classics, Ben Franklin, Gibbon's Roman Empire, Boswell and Johnson etc.

Keywords: ANTIQUARIAN