An Essay on the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion. LEWIS (George Cornewall).

First Edition. 8vo. [230 x 142 x 30 mm]. xii, 424, 4 pp. Bound in original blue boards, the front cover with a printed paper label for "Aylesbury Subscription Library", blue cloth spine with publisher's printed paper label, plain endleaves, untrimmed edges. (A little rubbed, corners bumped, spine label slightly chipped).
London: [printed by Savill and Edwards for] John W. Parker, 1849.

With the half-title and 4pp of advertisements for works published by Parker. A very good copy.

As the label on the front cover indicates this volume belonged to Aylesbury Subscription Library in Buckinghamshire. Inside the front cover is pasted another larger printed label completed in manuscript, numbering the volume "1070" and dating it 17th April 1852, with the instruction "To be returned by Subscribers in Aylesbury in 14 Days, by those in the Country in 18 Days". 22 names are listed, starting with Sir T. D. Aubrey Bart. and including the Rev. J. Harrison, nine gentlemen (designated as "Esq", with "J. Dell Esq" altered in pencil to "Miss Dell") plus Mr Morris and Mr Edward Terry, and nine ladies, four of them married. Six of them took the book out, four of them being ladies (anxious to know more about the influence of authority in matters of opinion?). None were fined for a late return.

Stock no. ebc7538