Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 1
"Erskine (Hon. Thomas). The Speeches of Hon. Thomas Erskine (now Lord Erskine), when at the Bar, on Subjects Connected with the Liberty of the Press, and Against Constructive Treasons, collected by James Ridgway, 5 vols., 1810-12, port. frontis. and folding plan in vol. 4, some minor spotting of prelims., contemp. tree calf, gilt dec. spines with contrasting labels, together with [Dunton, John], The Phenix: Or, a Revival of Scarce and Valuable Pieces from the Remotest Antiquity down to the Present Times. Being a Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Tracts, no where to be found but in the Closets of the Curious, vol. 1 (of 2), 1708, recent half calf gilt, plus The Poems of Ossian, trans. James MacPherson, 2 vols., new ed., 1790, contemp. tree calf, recently rebacked, and Thomson (James), The Works, with his last Corrections and Improvements, to which is prefixed, the Life of the Author, by Patrick Murdoch, 3 vols., 1788, half-title and port. to vol. 1, eng. plts., some minor scattered spotting, recent quarter calf gilt, and one other, all 8vo (12)"