"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

London: Printed by C. Wittingham for T. Heptinstall, 1798. FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Quarto, pp.364, with illustrations. Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title page with vignette, and illustrated with 8 copper engraved plates after Stothard. Elegantly bound in full blue straight-grained morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and fine extra gilt tooling to spine, gilt and blind panelling to boards, green end papers with gilt dentelle, all edges gilt. A little foxing to border of plates; binding slightly rubbed. An attractive copy. Item #36549
Price: £165.00