“All the things in the World are but Bawbles except Old Friends to converse with, and Old Books to Read” : William de Britaine - Humane Prudence (1700)
“All the things in the World are but Bawbles except Old Friends to converse with, and Old Books to Read” : William de Britaine - Humane Prudence (1700)
“All the things in the World are but Bawbles except Old Friends to converse with, and Old Books to Read” : William de Britaine - Humane Prudence (1700)
“All the things in the World are but Bawbles except Old Friends to converse with, and Old Books to Read” : William de Britaine - Humane Prudence (1700)
“All the things in the World are but Bawbles except Old Friends to converse with, and Old Books to Read” : William de Britaine - Humane Prudence (1700)
“All the things in the World are but Bawbles except Old Friends to converse with, and Old Books to Read” : William de Britaine - Humane Prudence (1700)
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[de Britaine, William] Humane Prudence, or The Art By Which a Man May Raise himself and his Fortune to Grandeur. London: Printed for Richard Sale, at Grays-Inn-Gate in Holborn, 1700.


(155 x 100 mm) pp. 229, 3 pages of advertisements. Collated and complete. A4, B-K12, L8. Marbled flyleaves. Later full calf bonding with fleur-de-lis decorations, title and date on spine. Gilt gauffers. Gilt foredges over Armenian clay red. Two provenance details: bookplate of Adam Sim Coulter on front pastedown and C Burrows 1817 written on title page. Spine shows some splitting along hinge, but very strong. Overall VERY GOOD condition.


Eighth Edition Corrected.