first edition
1758 · [Twickenham]
by Spence, Joseph
[Twickenham]: printed at Strawberry-Hill, by William Robinson; and sold by Messieurs Dodsley, at Tully's-Head, Pall-Mall; for the benefit of Mr. Hill, 1758. First edition, one of 700 copies printed; 12mo, pp. 104; engraved vignette portrait by Müntz of Antonio Magliabechi on title page (slightly offset); edges rubbed, else a very good, sound copy in later quarter tan calf, rebacked with old spine neatly laid down. Bookplate of James Frothingham Hunnewell, and with the ownership signature on the title-p. of J. Smets, October 15, 1839. The celebrated man of Florence was Magliabechi and the "one, scarce ever heard of" was a poor tailor of Buckingham, Robert Hill. Hazen 6; Lowndes 2475.
(Inventory #: 31497)