Title: Curiosities of literature. A new edition. In three volumes. Vol. I
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First of 3 volumes in 8vo. pp. vii, 512. Original boards. Contains illustrations and facsimiles. Bookplates of John Hadmar Sticht on recto of front flyleaves.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Reprint of the 7th edition (1823) of a collection of essays by the scholar and father of Benjamin, Isaac D’Israeli (1766-1848), of which the first edition was published in 1791. D’Israeli’s “library in miniature” evolved throughout its fourteen editions and discussed, i.a., literary forgeries and literary impostures.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103604" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>