Good Thoughts in Bad Times. FULLER (Thomas).

Good Thoughts in Bad Times: Good Thoughts in Worse Times: Mixt Contemplations in Better Times.

Engraved frontispiece portrait.

First Issue. 12mo. [159 x 99 x 22 mm]. viii, 365, [3] pp. Bound in the original glazed blue calico, lettered in gilt on a red goatskin label, plain endleaves, uncut edges.

London: [printed by D. A. Talboys, Oxford for] William Pickering, 1830

The issue with preface p.vi misnumbered "vii" and the dedicatory epistle, duplicating pagination, bound before the preface. A fine copy. Purportedly from the library of William Beckford. With pencil notes and shelf-mark (?) "N3461". Bookplate of Archibald Hamilton. From the library of Robert Gathorne-Hardy, sold Sotheby's, 15/10/1973, lot 350. Bought from Bertram Rota in 1973.

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