[GEORGIA]. THICKNESSE, Philip (1719-1792). Memoirs and Anecdotes of Philip Thicknesse, Late Lieutenant Governor of Land Guard Fort, and Unfortunately Father to George Touchet, Baron Audley. [London?]: Printed for the Author, 1788.

2 volumes (of 3), 8vo (184 x 113 mm). (Lacking the portrait frontispiece called for in Sabin, some staining, some chipping, some creasing.) Contemporary half calf gilt, black leather lettering-pieces gilt, red morocco onlays gilt, marbled boards, blue sprinkled edges (vol. I front cover detached, front joint cracked vol. II, some rubbing, some chipping). Provenance: George Best, Esq. (signature); T. Fairfax Best (armorial bookplate, Wiarton).

FIRST EDITION, with final blank leaves. Thicknesse, a prominent English author, visited the Colony of Georgia in September of 1736. The titular son reference’s Thicknesse’s son with his second wife, George Thicknesse-Touchet (1758-1818), the 19th Baron Audley in the title. Thicknesse’s will demanded that upon his death his right hand be severed and given to George “to remind him of his duty to God after having so long abandoned the duty he owed to a father, who once so affectionately loved him" (Olmert). The present work was “probably printed in London like many other works of the author, but might also have been printed at Bath where was his home” (Sabin). Like the present copy, “many of the located copies lack vol. 3, of this edition, published after the first two volumes” (Sabin). Michael Olmert (1996), Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella, p. 72; Sabin 95343.

Property from the Collection of Robert P. Hunter, Jr. and Barbara Hunter, Alpharetta, Georgia

[GEORGIA]. THICKNESSE, Philip (1719-1792). Memoirs and Anecdotes of Philip Thicknesse, Late Lieutenant Governor of Land Guard Fort, and Unfortunately Father to George Touchet, Baron Audley. [London?]: Printed for the Author, 1788.