3 volumes, 8vo (196 x 120 mm). Original publisher's violet wavy-grained cloth, spines gilt (pale discoloration from library labels to upper covers, spines repaired preserving original spines, endpapers renewed). 

 

FIRST EDITION, volume I second issue, volume II FIRST ISSUE, volume III third issue; volume II without any "edition" notice on titles, volumes I & III with edition statements erased from titles. Only 1,000 copies of the first edition were published, with most going to circulating libraries. See Margaret Cardwell, Clarendon Press, Appendix D: "there is no warrant to treating the five impressions as distinct editions: no authorial revision distinguishes one from another; blatant errors of substance remain uncorrected; a few errors in accidentals are corrected...but many more remain." Davis, p. 153; Eckel, p. 91-93; Sadleir 688; Smith I:14.

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