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GLEANINGS OF LITERATURE. Gleanings of Literature, or the miscellany of taste. Vol. I. Dublin : Print

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GLEANINGS OF LITERATURE. Gleanings of Literature, or the miscellany of taste. Vol. I. Dublin : Print

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
GLEANINGS OF LITERATURE. Gleanings of Literature, or the miscellany of taste. Vol. I. Dublin : Printed by Charles Downes, for P. Oulton, 36, Dame-Street, 1805ALL PUBLISHED, pages (6), xi, (15), 554, (40, subscriber list), with the half-title, 8vo, contemporary half calf over marbled boards,, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt : the binding rubbed and worn but still very strong and otherwise a very good copy. Very uncommon : we last handled a copy in 1976. COPAC locates copies at The National Trust, C, D and Dt. The D copy is without the very extensve subscriber list and the C copy wants a leaf of text. WorldCat locates only two copies – both at C, one being imperfect and C on-line shows only the imperfect copy. The dedication to John Willoughby signed Clare Sacheverell Forster (presumably the compiler/editor). The (11)-page Preface begins "The following work was principally compiled from the contents of a Common-place book, commenced in the year 1792, and continued with little interruption to the present time, notwithstanding the high authority of Doctor Johnson, and others, against the utility of such a practice.” The contents list is in the following sections : - Religious and Moral, Natural History, Useful and Important, Speculative and Critical, Historical, Biographical and characteristic, Topographical and descriptive, Antiquities, Miscellaneous, and, Poetry. A second volume, announced for publication on July 1st, 1806, was never published.DUBLIN PRINTED; ENGLISH LITERATURE; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;