Author: [HANWAY, JONAS]
Title: A Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston Upon Thames; Through Southampton, Wiltshire, &C. With Miscellaneous Thoughts, Moral and Religious;... ; an Essay on Tea:... ; with Several Political Reflections; and Thoughts on Public Love. .
Description: London: Printed for H. Woodall, 1756. First Edition. Leather cover. 285mm x 220mm (11" x 9"). prelims; 361pp. Engraved frontispieces. Contains a separate title page and frontis for the Essay on Tea, (An Essasy on Tea: Considered as pernicious to health; obstructing Industry and impoverishing the Nation: with a short account of its Growth and great Consumption in these Kingdoms. With several reflections in twenty-five letters addressed to two ladies.).. Scratches to front cover. Spine expertly re-laid and with new label. Hinges sympathetically repaired. Contemporary owner's name in ink to fep. Some soiling to the title page. Names of anonymous characters in the book disclosed in a contemporary hand to verso of endpaper. Tightly bound. Some marks internally but overall in very good condition without dust jacket .

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