Author: LYTTELTON (George), Lord:
Title: The Works of George Lord Lyttelton; Formerly printed separately, and now collected together: With some other Pieces, never before printed. Published by George Edward Ayscough.
Description: Dublin: Printed for J. Williams..., 1775. 8vo, pp. vii [viii blank], 564, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt, red morocco label; front joint cracked and tender. The first Dublin edition was in 1774 in two volumes. Johnson memorably said of him, "That man sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him."

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