first edition Hardcover
1794 · London
London: Printed for Harrison & Co, 1794. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo, with portraits of the subjects, marbled endpapers, full dark blue morocco with gilt decorations, a.e.g. Ownership signatures, bookplate, bookseller's label, else a fine, handsome volume. With brief biographies of such notable men as Bacon, Da Vinci, Hogarth, Locke, Newton, Shakspeare, Sterne, Voltaire, among others. (Inventory #: 98402)