Oct 02, 2002 - Sale 1944

Sale 1944 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 172
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
THE HIVE OF MODERN LITERATURE: A Collection of Essays, Narratives, Allegories, and Instructive Compositions; calculated to instil into the Youthful Mind the Principles . . . which fortify it against the Allurements of Vice and Youthful Propensities, too apt to grow into Incurable Habits.<> Woodcut title vignette and 3 text illustrations by Thomas Bewick. vii, [1], 288 pages. 12mo, 19th-century tree calf gilt with red morocco lettering piece, joints rubbed; contents toned, marginal repair on F1 slightly affecting text. London: S. Hodgson and G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799

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