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GROSE, Francis (1731?--1791)
Rules for drawing caricaturas: with an essay on comic painting.
London (Place), printed by A. Grant, for S. Hooper,, 1788.
40 p., IV engr. pl. ; 22.8 cm. (8°)

Anonymous. By Francis Grose. The final leaf (pp. 39--40) advertises other works published by Hooper, including the new edition of Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales in 8 volumes, plus two volume supplement, and his Military antiquities, the latter of which are to be 'comprized in 26 Numbers ... published Monthly, or oftener ... Twelve Numbers [being] ... already published'). ESTC t46959.

Copy Notes Imperfect; wanting pl. II. Bound in a volume of pamphlets on the arts.

Binding C19th blue paper boards, brown paper spine lettered in ink 'Miscel-/Laneous// Landseer/ Letters// Haydon/ on the/ Elgin/ Marbles/ &c./ &c./ E'. Later numbered '89' in a series of pamphlet volumes.

Reference Number 2390


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