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[Oldys (William)] The British Librarian:..., first collected edition, 1738; and 6 others seventeenth

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[Oldys (William)] The British Librarian:..., first collected edition, 1738; and 6 others seventeenth

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[Oldys (William)] The British Librarian:..., first collected edition, woodcut head-pieces, manuscript notes in ink to front endpaper (with small marginal defects, some silked), lacking advertisement leaf at rear, top fore-edge corner of title browned, very occasional marginal browning, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, for T. Osborne, 1738 § Laws and Acts made in the first Parliament of... James VII, a few instances of manuscript notations in ink, bookplate, some browning, later calf but retaining original lower cover, [Wing S1252], Edinburgh, heir of Andrew Anderson, 1685 § Simon (Richard) Critical Enquiries into the Various Editions of the Bible:..., bookplates to pastedowns and endpapers, original calf, rebacked, [Wing S3800], Thomas Braddyll, 1684; and 4 others religious, seventeenth and early eighteenth century, v.s. (7)

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[Oldys (William)] The British Librarian:..., first collected edition, 1738; and 6 others seventeenth

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