First edition: with portrait drawn and engraved by Kennerley, and five coloured plates by Marks.
Madame Vestris obtained an injunction against the publisher of this book and it was suppressed.
VIEW OF THE TOWN.—A View of the Town: in an Epistle to a Friend in the Country. A Satire. . . . London: Printed by R. Penny, for the Author, and sold by A. Dodd, . . . 1735. Folio, red levant morocco.
VILLARI, Pasquale.—Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola by Professor Pasquale Villari translated by Linda Villari with portraits and illustrations. . . . London: T. Fisher Unwin . . . M DCCC LXXX VIII. 8vo, two volumes, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges.
Portrait on steel and twenty-seven other illustrations.
VILLON, François.—The Poems of Master Francis Villon of Paris, now first done into English verse, in the original forms, by John Payne, author of 'The Masque of Shadows', 'Intaglios', 'Songs of Life and Death', &c. London: printed for the Villon Society, for private distribution, M DCCCLXXVIII. 8vo, green levant morocco, gilt back, side panels, centre ornament, gilt top, uncut edges, by De Coverly.
One of two copies printed upon vellum.
Woodcut frontispiece, which is repeated in gilt on the upper side of the binding.
VILLON, François.—The Poems of Master François Villon of Paris, now first done into English verse, in the original forms, with a biographical and critical introduction, by John Payne, . . . London: M DCCC XCII: printed for the Villon Society by private subscription and for private circulation only. 8vo, vellum boards, gilt top, uncut edges.
No. 306 of a limited edition.