The Jewish Spy:
being a Philosophical, Historical and Critical Correspondence, by Letters which lately pass'd between certain Jews in Turky, Italy, France, &c. Translated from the originals into French, by the Marquis D'Argens; and now done into English.
London, D. Browne et al., 1744
With an interesting dedicatory epistle to 'The Printer's Devil', a moniker for the young apprentice so-named from being 'daub'd with the Printer's Ink' (Preface).
Second edition, 5 vols; 12mo (17 x 10.5 cm); engraved frontispiece, each vol. with engraved vignette to title, engraved portrait of D'Argens by James Mynde, woodcut initial, head and tailpieces; each vol. with extensive index, vol. 1, p.303 misnumbered 333, binder's corner vol. 3, P5; contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spine, red morocco lettering pieces, edges stained red, small defects to extremities, a little worn; xii, 303, [45]; xii, 312, [48]; xvi, 322, [58]; xix, [1], 317, [34]; xxiv, 368, [28] pp.
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