[ Limited earliest edition ] Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy, delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806

Author: 
Rev. Sydney Smith
Publication details: 
Printed by Spottiswoodes and Shaw, London, 1849. 'One hundred Copies printed for Private Distribution. No. [94]'
£320.00
SKU: 16929

Pp.[viii].424, "NOT PUBLISHED" at base of spine, brown buckram in blind. top and bottom of spine sl. damaged, corners bumped, one corner (front right) bleached and worn, contents good. Inscribed on half-title "Mrs Somerville No.94" presumably the scientific writer, Mary Somerville). One MS. correction on p.264, "passed" to "past", possibly in Somerville's hand but more likely the person who wrote the inscription "Mrs Somerville". Three copies of this edition listed on COPAC.