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T. Becket, London, 1778. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. Size: 18mo <6 1/2". xxiv + 152pp. One volume of the 2-volume set. Front hinge cracked, with wear to joint. Split to top of rear joint. Some wear to spine. Foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges browned. Covers worn. Corners bumped. Contains frontispiece. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: History; Rome; Early (0-1000 AD); Politics & Government. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 49113. .

London: Printed in the Year 1770. Small 8vo (in 4s), pp. [iv], 199 [200 blank], including half-title, contemporary sheepskin, red leather label; front joint cracked and tender, rear joint rubbed, top and base of spine chipped. With the contemporary inscription "Thomas Browns/ Book" on the title-page and the armorial bookplate of Chas. Laudos [?] Pole on the front paste-down end-paper. John Langhorne (1735 - 1779) is probably better-known as the translator of Plutarch than the author of these suppositous letters, which he translated with his elder brother William and which appeared the same year.