first edition
1778 · London
by Davis, Henry Edwards
London: printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1778. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], iv, 284; original blue-gray paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, manuscript titling (faded) on spine; a very good copy. Bookplate of "Rev. J. Jenkins, / Kerry" on front pastedown. The Rev. John Jenkins of Kerry (1770-1829) was a Welsh pastor and antiquary who graduated from Oxford in 1791. See his short but interesting entry in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography where we learn of his appointment to chaplain on two ships in the West Indies, and the building of a new parsonage at Kerry. Davis was only 21 years old and an Oxford undergraduate when he wrote this book, (truncated)