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Clio, or a discourse on taste. Addressed to a Lady. A new edition, with the addition of notes, anecdotes, and quotations, by J. Mathew.
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USHER, James (1720--1772)
Clio, or a discourse on taste. Addressed to a Lady. A new edition, with the addition of notes, anecdotes, and quotations, by J. Mathew.
London (Place), printed for Messrs. Longman and Rees, by Emery and Adams, Bristol,, 1803.
xxiii, [1], 255, [1] p. ; 22.5 cm. (8º)
First published anonymously by James Usher, schoolmaster in 1767. There was a second edition in 1769, a third in 1773, and a fourth published in Dublin in 1778. The author, whose initials only, 'I. U.', were given on the title-page of the second edition, is fully identified in this 1803 edition in the 'Advertisement from the Editor' (p. [v]). With a dedication by the editor, J. Mathew to Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach.
Copy Notes Bought from Thomas Boone for 3s. 6d., 8 July 1807. (Spiers Box). With Boone's price in pencil on front free-endpaper.
Binding C19th blue paper boards, marbled-paper spine, green printed paper spine-label reading 'Clio. New Edition By Mathew'.
Reference Number 3474
Additional Names Thomas Boone; Mathew, J. (fl.$1803)
Clio, or a discourse on taste. Addressed to a Lady. A new edition, with the addition of notes, anecdotes, and quotations, by J. Mathew.
London (Place), printed for Messrs. Longman and Rees, by Emery and Adams, Bristol,, 1803.
xxiii, [1], 255, [1] p. ; 22.5 cm. (8º)
First published anonymously by James Usher, schoolmaster in 1767. There was a second edition in 1769, a third in 1773, and a fourth published in Dublin in 1778. The author, whose initials only, 'I. U.', were given on the title-page of the second edition, is fully identified in this 1803 edition in the 'Advertisement from the Editor' (p. [v]). With a dedication by the editor, J. Mathew to Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach.
Copy Notes Bought from Thomas Boone for 3s. 6d., 8 July 1807. (Spiers Box). With Boone's price in pencil on front free-endpaper.
Binding C19th blue paper boards, marbled-paper spine, green printed paper spine-label reading 'Clio. New Edition By Mathew'.
Reference Number 3474
Additional Names Thomas Boone; Mathew, J. (fl.$1803)