No. 3 of fifty large paper copies printed. Illustrated by the insertion of one hundred and twenty portraits and views, and an original drawing of St. Mark's, Venice. Thirty of the plates are proofs on India paper, and others are proofs before letters.
GRIMSTON, William Luckyn, (First) Viscount.—The Lawyer's Fortune: or, Love in a Hollow Tree. A comedy. London: Printed and Sold by E. Hill, . . . M, DCC, XXXVI. Small 8vo, brown morocco, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
This play, first printed in quarto, 1705, was written when the author was only thirteen years of age. He tried to buy up the edition, but was only partially successful. In 1710, when he was Parliamentary candidate for St. Alban's, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough caused this edition to be printed at her own expense, with a woodcut (page 9) representing the author as an elephant walking a tight-rope. This edition also he bought up as far as possible.
Engraved frontispiece of a hollow tree.
Title, A1 (verso blank). "To the Right Sensible, the Lord Flame" [Samuel Johnson], signed "The Publisher," A2. "The Preface," A3-A4 (verso "Dramatis Perſonæ"). Text, B1-K3 in fours.
GROSE, Francis.—See Bunbury, H.
GROTE, George.—Plato, and the other companions of Sokrates. By George Grote, . . . London: John Murray, . . . 1865. . . . 8vo, three volumes, half brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
GROTE, Harriet Lewin.—Memoir of the Life of Ary Scheffer. By Mrs. Grote. London: John Murray, . . . 1860. 8vo, original cloth, uncut edges.
First edition. Portrait and facsimile.