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ADDISON, Joseph.
The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq.
London, Jacob Tonson, 1721.
The Catholic Church placed Addison's works on their list of banned books, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1729, where they remained up until the Index was abolished in 1966 by Pope Paul VI.
Large paper copy, 4 volumes; 4to (30 x 24 cm); engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignettes and initials; contemporary English red morocco, covers with wide, gilt borders of dotted lines, rolls, and foliate designs interspersed with crowns, spines extra gilt in six compartments, gilt outer edges, edges and dentelles, neat repairs to extremities. A very handsome set.
Stock code 75722
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq.
MILTON, John; PHILIPS, Edward (translator).
Letters of State,
1694.
The first edition in English of Milton's Literare Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani, translated by his nephew Edward Phillips, and containing three previously unpublished preliminary sonnets
$2,542.00
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Other Fables.
1897.
A handsome copy of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
$392.00
