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Author: Boyd, Hugh
Title: The Miscellaneous Works of Hugh Boyd, The Author of the Letters of Junius
Place: London
Publisher: T. Cadell, Junior and W. Davies
Date: 1800
Item # : 205410
Sale Number   416
Lot Number   17
Sale Name    
Rare Books & Manuscripts
Sale Date   11/19/2009
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 300
High Estimate   $ 500
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Description:
With an account of his life and writings by Lawrence Dundas Campbell. 2 volumes. [xvi], 323; [iv], 495 pp. Portrait frontispiece in Volume 1. (8vo) 9x5½, original boards. First Edition.
"Boyd's writings were collected and republished after his death by one of his Indian friends, under the [present] title... They comprise the ‘Freeholder Letters;’ ‘Democraticus,’ a series of letters printed in the ‘Public Advertiser,’ 1779; ‘The Whig,’ a series of letters contributed to the ‘London Courant,’ 1779-80; ‘Abstracts of Two Speeches of the Earl of Chatham;’ ‘Miscellaneous Poems;’ ‘Journal of Embassy to the King of Candy;’ and the ‘Indian Observer.’" (DNB)
Condition:
Spines darkened, edge wear; pages untrimmed; very good.
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