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NOVEL.. A Sketch of the Times: or, Memoirs of Lord Derville. In Two Volumes.1781

Dublin: Printed by C. Talbot, First Irish edition, 2 vols., in one, 12mo (163 x 100 mm), [2], 128; [4], [135]-262pp., without half-title to vol. I, top blank outer corner of vol. I title sympathetically replaced with archival paper, front free-endpaper renewed, contemporary calf, flat spine with red morocco lettering-piece, extremities a little rubbed but a very good copy. A scarce epistolary novel published in the same year at the London edition; ESTC records two copies of the London edition and just the BL copy of this Irish edition; The National Library of Ireland does hold a copy of this Irish edition which incorrectly listed as the London edition. Garside, Raven & Schwöerling, 1781: 13; ESTC locating the BL copy only.

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