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ANDREWS (JAMES PETTIT): The History of Great Britain, Connected with The Chronology of Europe: With Notes, &c. Containing Anecdotes of the Times, Lives of the Learned, and Specimens of their Works.
London: Printed by T. Burton and Co....For T. Cadell..., 1794, 1795. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 4to, pp. vii [viii blank], 477 [478 blank, 479 Errata, 480 blank]; [ii], 366 [367 Errata, 368 blank, 369 - 376 adverts], 3 folding charts in volume 1, one folding chart in volume 2, contemporary calf, morocco labels (chipped); covers detached, tops and bases of spines chipped, with the armorial bookplate of Robt. Fellowes on the front paste-down end-paper of volume 1. Andrews (c. 1737 - 1797) was more of a compiler than a narrator, and his method here is to display British history on the verso of one leaf and on the adjacent recto of the following leaf various events in Europe and, less often, in the rest of the world.
Offered for GBP 165.00 = appr. US$ 269.94 by: John Price Antiquarian Books - Book number: 4570
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