Vicesimus KNOX

New edition, revised and expanded. Illustrated with a frontispiece showing various authors in medallions. Printed in double columns.
Contemporary marbled brown calf binding. Smooth spine richly decorated with Greek key and other rolls. Red morocco title-label. Covers decorated with 3 framing rolls. Interior frieze. Tears to the title-label, upper joint and one compartment. Rubbing. One corner slightly bumped. Elegant English binding, despite some flaws.The letters are divided into four books; the first offers extracts from Cicero and Pliny; the second gathers famous personalities from English history; book three contains letters by Pope and his friends; the last book contains correspondence by Laurence Sterne, Lord Chesterfield...
An appendix contains extracts from French letter writers, Madame de Maintenon and Madame de Sévigné.

New edition, revised and enlarged. 2 title vignettes.
Contemporary full marbled havana calf bindings. Smooth spines richly decorated with Greek key and other rolls. Red morocco title label. Boards decorated with 3 enclosing rolls. Interior frieze. 3 corners slightly bumped. Small tears to headcaps. Rubbing. Elegant English binding, despite some flaws.
The extracts are divided into four books or sections: Sacred and moral poetry (Pope, Gray, Dryden...); Didactic and descriptive poetry; Dramas (Shakespeare, Johnson...); Lyrical and sentimental poetry (Milton, Spenser, Tasso, Smith...).