Author: [MOORE (John)]:
Title: Zeluco. Various View of Human Nature, taken From Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic.
Description: London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell..., 1789. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. [iv], 482 [483 Errata, 484 blank]; [iv], 529 [530 blank, 531 Errata, 532 blank], including half-titles, contemporary quarter sheepskin, red morocco labels, marbled boards (slightly soiled and rubbed), vellum corners; small strip cut from upper margin of half-title in volume 1, small crease in spine of volume 2, rear joints slightly cracked. A Dublin edition was published in the same year. The Universal Magazine for June, 1789, published extracts, with this endorsement: "The Narrative throughout displays a great Knowledge of the Human Heart and of the World, and exhibits in the most terrific Light the Miseries inseparable from a Vicious and Depraved Disposition; while, on the other Hand, the Disgust which such a Character necessarily excites, is relieved by the Contemplation of the Happiness, finally the Result of Virtuous Principle, exhibited by a very amiable Character in the most difficult and trying Scenes."

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