W. W.

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

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Description

The Vermin-Killer, Being a Very Necessary Family-Book, Containing Exact Rules and Directions for the Artifical Killing and Destroying of All Manner of Vermin, &c. Rats and Mice Moles Pismires Flyes Fleas & Lice Adders Snakes Weasles Catterpillars Buggs Froggs, &c. Whereunto Is Added the Art of Taking of All Sorts of Fish and Foul, with Many Other Observations Never Before Extant. London: Printed for Samuel Lee, 1680
paper, ink, leather

12mo (5 3/8 x 3 in.; 136 x 76 mm). Headlines in black letter, roman and italic text, 5 pages of advertisements at the end; light browning throughout. Speckled calf antique, small gilt lettering piece.

Literature

Wing W156; ESTC R186120 ("The second edition"; cf. Wing W155 (the first edition); ESTC R22551

Catalogue Note

A mixed issue evidently unknown or unrecorded. This copy's collation is identical to ESTC R186120 but does not bear the notice "The second edition" immediately after the title. There is also a curious typesetting omission affecting leaf B9: text on B9v begins with the heading "Another" whereas the catchword on B9r is "toge-". Presumably, the verso text should have read "ther, approved Cornel. Agrip."