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EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED (AUBREY, JOHN.) Walker, John; editor. Letters written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: to which are added . . . Lives of Eminent Men, by John Aubrey, Esq. 2 volumes in 3. 8vo, 19th-century 1/2 calf, spines faded and scuffed; contents variously foxed. London, 1813
first edition of Aubrey's Lives, "one of the great literary works of his age. Its intimate and minutely observed biographical sketches of many of the great personalities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are unrivalled and represent a unique source for much of the personal and anecdotal information which they contain" (ODNB). extra-illustrated with over 75 18th- and 19th-century engraved portraits of Aubrey's subjects.
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