The world. /
Fitz-Adam, Adam,pseud.
Moore, Edward,1712-1757.
Walpole, Horace,1717-1797.
Cambridge, Richard Owen,1717-1802.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope,Earl of,1694-1773.
Jeffreys, William,former owner.StEdNL
London: : Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall.,
MDCCLXXII. [1772]
Originally published in 209 weekly numbers from January 4, 1753 to December 30, 1756, with Edward Moore, the Earl of Chesterfield, Richard Owen Cambridge, and Horace Walpole as the principal contributors (and dedicatees of the four volumes), under the joint pseudonym of Adam Fitz-Adam. Moore was editor and contributed sixty-one papers. On the last two leaves of vol. 4 is given a list of The Names of the Authors of the World, with asterisks for Chesterfield's contributions.
Engraved title page vignette on all volumes signed Wale del., Grignion Sc.
All volumes include index.
Chesterfield's name has been written in pencil in a contemporary hand beside the asterisked entries in the list of Authors; there are other manuscript notes and insertions in the four volumes.
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Inscription on the title page of all volumes: W. Jeffreys Jr.; ink stamp on the front pastedown of all volumes: The Abbey Library, Fort Augustus.
English essays,