Front pastedown with book label of Newell's Library and with engraved bookplates of American travel writer James Hale Bates (1845-1901) and of John Peachey, Esq. Engraved printer's device on title pages, arms of the Countess of Pembroke on dedication page, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, full-page engraved allegorical frontispiece, plus 130 HALF-PAGE COPPER-ENGRAVED PLATES BY BERNARD PICART, CHARLES LE BRUN, AND OTHERS. Contemporary dark brown calf, sturdily rebacked to style, raised bands flanked by gilt rules, gilt lettering, hinges neatly reinforced. Translated by John Dryden, John Addison, Alexander Pope, and other "eminent hands," with explications by Abbé Banier. Two volumes, continuously paginated, bound in one.
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