[LITERATURE] ANECDOTES OF WILLIAM BOWYER

London: John Nichols, 1782. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; in mottled calf boards; rebacked in leather; with titling on the spine in gilt; with four raised bands on the spine and morocco labels; with marbled endpapers; [iv] viii, [1], 2-666 pages including the Index; engraved portrait frontispiece of William Bowyer.~~This William Bowyer, printer, was the son of a London printer of the same name --William ap William Bowyer. ~~We enjoyed the 1758 correspondence of William Bowyer and David Garrick, in which both gentlemen bent over backwards to be polite which bashing to the other. ~~This copy with the interesting bookplate of Jacob Solis Cohen. Very Good binding.