Author: RICHARDSON. SAMUEL.
Title: CLARISSA, or the History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life, and Particularly Showing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage. A New edition, with the last corrections by the Author.
Description: B. Law and Son, T. Cadell, G. G. and J. Robinson, R. Baldwin, J. Johnson .......... London. 1792. EIGHT VOLUMES. Complete. 8vo. (7 x 4.4 inches). Engraved frontis in each volume, the one in volume 2 being supplied in facsimile, the others all original. Folding engraved music plate in Volume 2. Neat previous owner name to the top of the blank front free endpapers and a couple of volumes with a previous owners page number notes alongside them, otherwise a lovely bright, fresh and clean set throughout. Bound, without the half titles, in contemporary full tree calf bindings. Spines decorated and ruled in gilt. Red and green labels double ruled and lettered in gilt. Spines rubbed and chipped to extremities. Several hinges rubbed or cracked but all still holding firm. Aside from the one facsimile frontis plate this is a better set than usually found internally, in worn, but still atractive early leather bindings.

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