First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. Contemporary paper boards, backed with blind-embossed calf, with gilt lettering, Phillips accession marks to front pastedown. Very good. 530pp.; 576pp. Stockholm, Henry. A. Nordström, 1816.
A note in ink on the verso of the front free endpaper states - “Of this book only thirty copies were printed, and distributed among the friends of the author. This copy was given to me by the Chevalier Brinkmana. Stockholm. March 20. 1818.” Here a narrow strip is cut from the page with, below the cut and in pencil, the note - “The name cut out was Strangford. The book having belonged to my friend Lord Strangford, the Ambassador to Sweden. J Phillipps”.
