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London: Printed for George Cowie and Co., 1813. [2], xxiv, 336pp. Contemporary dark green half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, black calf lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Adhesive residue to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. A revised edition of naturalist and theologian John Ray's (1627-1705) catalogue of traditional English maxims and aphorisms; a radical departure from usual publications on botany or natural history that nevertheless has come to be considered one of his most important works. Notably, American polymath Benjamin Franklin appropriated many of these proverbs, without acknowledgement (though he did not go so far as to claim authorship), in Poor Richard's Almanac. . Fifth edition. 8vo.

Hanover Square, Strand and Paternoster Row: T. & J. Allman; T. Boone; Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1817. [..the title continues "To which is added, A Collection of English Words, not generally used; With their significations and original in two alphabetical catalogues; the one, of such as are proper to the Northern, the other, to the Southern Counties. With an account of the preparing and refining such metals & minerals as are found in England". [Reprinted verbatim from the edition of 1768]. 12mo, the title page printed in red and black, a clean tear to the gutter margin (see illustration) and a contemporary inscription, pp vi, 308, slight age-toning, endpapers a little foxed but otherwise quite clean and sound internally, bound in a (later ?) Victorian brown pebble cloth, a tear to the base of the spine, otherwise just slightly worn. [The signature is of Lady Rowe.]. Cloth. Good.

London: George Cowie and Co. 1813, 5th edition. (Hardcover) 336pp. Good. Contemporary modest 3 / 4 leather rebinding with plain boards. Worn, the endpapers are missing, foxing and notations in faded ink throughout the text, and a previous owner's armorial bookplate on the inside cover. Revised by John Balfour. (Proverbs, Proverbs, Quotations).