FIRST EDITION of this translation. 12mo, 182 x 110 mms., pp. [ii], iv, 230, including half-title, contemporary straight grain olive morocco, gilt spine, all edges gilt; text a bit foxed, top of spine chipped, but a very good copy with the ownership "Miss Hawkins" in a fine calligraphic script at the top of the half-title. It would be pleasant to think that this once belonged to Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins (1759 - 1835), the author and daughter of Sir John Hawkins (d. 1789), whom the author of Rasselas declared to be "unclubbable." Also with the pencil ownership autograph of Roger Senhouse on the front paste-down end-paper. Fleeman 59.4R/TF/24. Copies located in BL, Bodleian, Aberdeen, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow; Yale, Chicago, Harvard, Princeton, Toronto Public. Seller Inventory # 6332

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Title: Rasselas, Prince d'Abyssinie, Conte. ...

Publisher: Londres: Chez G. et W. B. Whittaker.

Publication Date: 1823

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition

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