Powell, Nathan | Various modes of fortune telling.

Powell, Nathan

The new universal fortune-teller; or, complete book of fate ... London: Alexander Hogg, [1789]

12mo (165 x 101 mm). Engraved frontispiece, woodcut text illustration on p. 62; scattered foxing and staining. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards; quite worn, upper board and front free endpaper detached.

A rather obscure work not known to ESTC or Worldcat, but which did appear in an advertisement in the Gentleman's Magazine, March 1789, as just being published by Hogg for one shilling. It treats astrology, dream interpretation, fortune telling with an ordinary deck of cards, and palmistry.

REFERENCE:

Exemplars, p. 81; not in ESTC or Worldcat

PROVENANCE:

Thomas Corbett of Belton, Leicestershire (bookplate on front pastedown dated 1808 and ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated 11 July 1803; inscription on verso of front free endpaper, most likely in Thomas Corbett's hand: "Samuel Shaw to Elizabeth Corbett was Married August 15th Ano Dom. 1802" | "Thomas Corbett was born June 30th 1787. Belton")