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Baker, William King & Richardson, Anne W. (editor)
John T. Dorland.
Publisher: Headley Brothers, London;
Date of Publication: 1898
Stock Code: 8154
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xxiv, 433, [3] catalogue. 35 illustrations to plates, with tissue-guards, including portrait frontispiece. Publishers’ maroon reeded cloth, with bevelled boards, gilt titles to spine and ruing to spine and upper board, and facsimile of Dorland’s signature in gilt to upper board. Spine lightly sunned with minor wear at tips; a slightly shaken copy with cracked inner front hinge. Ownership inscription dated in year of publication in ink to first blank and annotation & underlining in pencil to Preface otherwise contents clean. A Very Good copy. Biography of the American Quaker missionary and traveller John Trumpour Dorland (1749-1833). Scarce. £30.00