first edition
1791 · Philadelphia
by William Smellie
Philadelphia: Printed for Robert Campbell, Bookseller, North-east Corner of Second and Chesnut Street, 1791. Very Good. Philadelphia: Printed for Robert Campbell, Bookseller, North-east Corner of Second and Chesnut Street, 1791. First American Edition. Octavo. 490pp.; [i] page publisher's advertisement. Bound in contemporary sheep with red leather title label to spine. Boards scuffed with light edgewear. Front board bowed but binding sound. Evidence of removed bookplate to front pastedown; toning to edges; tear to fore-edge of pp. 49-50; chip to top front corner of pp. 435-36 with brief loss of meaning. Else a Very Good and sound copy, originally published in Edinburgh in 1790.
(Inventory #: 31824)