MICROCOSM | THE OLLA PODRIDA | THE ADVENTURER

Authors: Canning, George

Monro, Thomas

Hawkesworth, John

Categories: Fiction

Prose

Year: 1825

Date Details: 1828 'Microcosm' and 'Olla Podrida'; 'Adventurer' 1825

Publisher: Jones & Company, 3, Acton Place, Kingsland Road

Pagination: vi, 176p, viii, 279p.

Dimensions: 21.7 x 13.5 cm

City: London

Document Type: Book

Language: English

Printer: Hutchison & Brookman, Glasgow; Andrew & John M. Duncan, Printers to the University, Glasgow (Adventurer)

Advertisements: Prior to first work, advertisement for 'The British Essayists'

Price: Adventurer, for example, is advertised as 5s.

Binding: Brown, half calf. Front and back covers marbled board. SPINE: [gilt-tooled] '(line) | (line) | 'dotted line) | MICROCOSM &c | (dotted line)' (on dark brown calf) | (line) | (line) | (line) | (line) | (line) | (line)'.

Edges: Trimmed, marbled

Marginalia: Front free endpaper '£5- | Gary Kelly | 7/6 | LR Cowell | 25A.1819A1'.

Notes:

Includes: THE MICROCOSM ; BY THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANNING AND OTHERS. AND THE OLLA PODRIDA ; BY THOMAS MONRO A. B. AND OTHERS.' (vi, 176p) THE ADVENTURER : BY JOHN HAWKESWORTH, LL. D. AND OTHERS.' (viii, 279p) Each work is a collection of letters.