Just published by T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, complete in eight volumes in quarto, the second edition of the Harleian miscellany: ...: ... - Softcover

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T121150

Drop-head title. First line of text (on p.2): "A brief comedy, or enterlude of Johan Baptyst's Prea-". The second edition of the Harleian miscellany was published by T. Osborne in 1753. The first leaf is signed *2. A reissue, without the first and las

[London, 1753]. 12p. ; 8°

Thomas Osborne came as a teen in the 1870s from the United States to homestead with his father in Ontario's Muskoka. After five dramatic years he returned to the United States to live and work in Pennsylvania and New York. In 1938 he was killed by an automobile in San Diego, California.