The history of Sir Charles Grandison, and the Honourable Miss Byron : in which are included memoirs of a noble Italian family, in a series of letters / by Samuel Richardson, Esq., author of "Pamela and Clarissa Harlowe" ; formerly published in seven volumes, now comprised in two large octavo volumes, embellished with elegant copper-plates.

Accession number: 
PML 128115-16
Author: 
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.
Published: 
London : Printed for Harrison and Co., Paternoster-Row, [1783?]
Description: 
2 v. (1040 p., [18] leaves of plates) : ill. (engravings) ; 22 cm (8vo)
Credit: 
Gift of Charles Ryskamp, in memory of Michael S. Currier, 1998.
Notes: 

Head-pieces.
Plates signed by Stothard, dated 1782 and 1783.
Blake plates: vol. I, p. 464 (plate XII), and vol. II, p. 841 (Plate XXIII).
This two-volume set is from The Novelist's Magazine series.
The pagination jumps from 587 to 620, but the text remains accurate.

Provenance: 
From the Charles Ryskamp collection.
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