On the Employment of Time: Three Essays [WITH] Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, and Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another [WITH] The Querist, Containing Several Queries, Proposed to the Consideration of the Public, To Which is Added... A Word to the Wife, or, An Exhortation to the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland [WITH] The Morals of a People. The Bast Security of Good Government, or, The Support of the Scots Clergy Inseparably Connected with the British Constitution, by a British Whig, Addressed to the Right Honourable Henry Pelham
first edition Hardcover
1750 [et al, see below] · London
by [Bolton, Robert]; Berkeley (Berkley), George
London: Printed for J. Whiston... R. Dodsley... and W. Russel... / W. Innys, and C. Hitch... and C. Davis... / W. Innys, C. Davis, C. Hitch, W. Bowyer... / M. Cooper, 1750 [et al, see below]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary calf, handsomely rebacked, with gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label in second compartment (5 raised bands); four works bound together in one volume, 8vo; TIME, 1750 First Edition, pp. xxvii, [1], 130, [2] (ads); SIRIS, 1747 London reprint of the Dublin edition, pp. 174, [1] (contents); QUERIST, 1750 First Edition, pp. [4], 83, [1]; MORALS, 1751 First Edition, pp. 30. Boards scratched and scuffed. Contemporary handwritten notes on FFEP, listing the volume's contents; contermporary ownership signature on title-page of TIME and QUERIST; contemporary marginalia in QUERIST. Otherwise an excellent, clean copy, nice and tight, text block just a bit tanned and brittle along the edges (more pronounced on first and last few leaves). (Inventory #: JC14358)