£550
THE DEVIL TURN’D HERMIT: OR, THE ADVENTURES OF ASTAROTH BANISH’D FROM HELL. A SATIRICAL ROMANCE, first thus, 2 vols, full leather, applied hand-written title label to spine, laid paper, engraved frontispiece to vol I, inscribed to title pages, vol I printed and sold by J. Hodges, J. Robinson, J. Wilcox and J. Brindsley, London 1841 and vol. II printed for T. Waller, London 1742 (2)
Provenance: The Estate of Lord Kenyon, Gredington.
All front corners bumped and worn. Shelf wear to bottom edge of boards. Boards generally clean with minor shelf wear. Both spines fully attached, but vol 1 with splits developing at the top of the front and back covers. All pages with minor foxing and yellowing, most noticeable to endpapers. P1 small loss to bottom right corner. Front cover of vol 1 bends out slightly and does not sit closed. Vol 1: Frontispiece, title page, advertisement first page all un-numbered, advertisement pp iv-v, Preface first page un-numbered, then pp vii-ix, 'Asteroth To The Reader' first page un-numbered, then pp xi-xii, Contents first page un-numbered, then pp ii-iv, text first page un-numbered, then pp2-276. Vol 2: Title page, Translator's Preface first page un-numbered, then p iv, Author's Preface first page un-numbered, then pp vi-vii, Contents first page un-numbered, then pp ix-x, text first page un-numbered, then pp2-254.
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