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1770 first edition 'Printed by G. Scott, for W. Flexney, Opposite Gray's Inn Gate' (London), two volumes bound as one, 5 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches tall dark brown full leather bound, gilt lettering to spine, English marble endpapers, [16], xi, 159, [4], 175 pp., complete. Newly rebound in French goat. Minor staining to top of first title page. Otherwise, apart from an occasional very light instance of foxing, a very good to near fine copy of this scarce issue. ABPC indicates a copy has not come up at auction since 1990, when it sold for 750 pounds sterling ($1,444) at Sotheby's. References: ESTC No. N12044; OCLC No. 4433087. ~Z~ William Woty (circa 1731-1791) came to London, possibly from the Isle of Wight, to clerk for a solicitor. He participated in debating clubs and published poetry in the newspapers that was later collected in the volume, 'The Shrubs of Parnassus.' Woty was involved with William Dodd in the Christian's Magazine, and with Francis Fawkes in The Poetical Calendar. About 1767 he found a patron in Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers (1722-1778), for whom he did legal work. Woty died at Loughborough in 1791, having acquired some reputation as a bon vivant. Seller Inventory # Z-0741-1055
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