ORIGINAL LETTERS, from Richard Baxter, Matthew Prior, Lord Bolingbroke, Alexander Pope, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Hartley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Montague, Rev. William Gilpin, Rev. John Newton, George Lord Lyttelton, Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, &c. &c. With biographical illustrations.

Published by Printed by Richard Cruttwell St. James's-street Bath; and sold by Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown Pater-noster-Row London, 1817

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8vo, pp. viii, 303, [1] advertisement; contemporary half calf, rather rubbed, and with head of spine chipped; but sound. First and only edition. Rebecca Warner was a novelist as well as editor: her Herbert Lodge (1808) had also been printed by Cruttwell and published by Longman. The following year she published a selection of historical letters 'illustrative of the Herbert family', but little seems to be known about her. the letters printed here seem to have come from a limited number of sources, mainly the Fortescue, Gilpin, Hartley and Fowke families. There are numerous letters from Pope to William Fortescue, and an intriguing one from Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley. Of the letters by Samuel Johnson printed here, one (a letter to Francis Fowke of 1783) is known only from this book. There are also letters by Elizabeth Montagu, and odd additional material, such as a couple of pages on the pictures at Houghton Hall (pp. 284-6) and a character of Voltaire by Frederick the Great of Prussia (pp. 272-4).…

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ORIGINAL LETTERS, from Richard Baxter, Matthew Prior, Lord Bolingbroke, Alexander Pope, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Hartley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Montague, Rev. William Gilpin, Rev. John Newton, George Lord Lyttelton, Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, &c. &c. With biographical illustrations.
Author
WARNER, Rebecca, editor.
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Printed by Richard Cruttwell St. James's-street Bath; and sold by Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown Pater-noster-Row London
Publication year
1817
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