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Title: Cyder A Poem. In Two Books
Description: London: Printed for Jacob Tonson..., 1708. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 187 x 113 mms., pp. [iv], 89 [90 blank], engraved frontispiece (off-setting on frontispiece), contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, with new end-papers and spine blocked in gilt; corners slightly crushed, but a very good copy. "To the poem on Cider, written in imitation of the Georgicks, may be given this peculiar praise, that it is grounded in truth; that the precepts which it contains are exact and just, and that it is therefore at once a book of entertainment and of science" (Dr. Johnson). Foxon P237. Rothschild 1535.

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Price: GBP 275.00 = appr. US$ 392.70 Seller: John Price Antiquarian Books
- Book number: 10287