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Lot 67
[RALPH, JAMES] The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade, Stated. With Regard to Booksellers, the Stage, and the Public. No ma...
. London: R. Griffiths, 1758. Contemporary calf boards rebacked and recornered. 7 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches (20.5 x 12.5 cm); [iv] , 72 pp., and pp.73-76 misnumbered 65-68. [Bound with:] D'ISRAELI, ISAAC. An essay on the manners and genius of the literary character. London: 1795. Some ink notations and neat pencil marginalia, stamps to verso of title with some show-through, the binding rubbed and cracked, bookplate of the American collector and bookseller George P. Philes, sheet tipped to rear pastedown (in Philes' hand?).
Ralph was American-born and a contemporary of Franklin, and his early life is recounted in Franklin's Autobiography. Ralph would live most of his life in London where he is associated with Fielding, David Garrick, and Isaac D'Israeli. Philes, whose pencilled name is also on the paste-down, with textual notes in his hand in the first work, was the publisher of the earliest American magazine of book collecting, Philobiblion.
C The New York City Bar Association
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