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Lot 4180
First Edition of Swinden's An Enquiry into the Nature and Place of Hell
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Tobias Swinden. AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND PLACE OF HELL. London: Printed by W. Bowyer, for W. Taylor and H. Clements, 1714. First edition. Tooled and paneled calf, raised bands and gilt title on spine. 8vo; [16], 292, [2]pp. Roman type with italic. With woodcut initials, head-pieces, and ornaments, printed marginalia, (2) folding engraved plates. ESTC T140180.

7 3/4 x 4 7/8 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

Boards with edgewear, corners bumped, cracking at joints, spine worn with title fading; cracking at hinges, endpapers with manuscript and staining from binder's glue; pages toned and foxed; several pages with small loss to corner or lower margin, fore-edge with small area of staining/residue. A good and complete copy.