Addison (Joseph), The Works, four-volume set, London: Jacob ...

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Addison (Joseph), The Works, four-volume set, London: Jacob Tonson, 1721, engraved portrait frontispiece and 4 dedication leaves, contemporary calf, 4to, (4); Pope (Alexander, translator), The Iliad of Homer, volume III only, first edition thus, London: W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott, contemporary panelled calf, small folio (1), [5]

Provenance: 1st: 1) Margaret Maxwell (née King; d. 1766), first wife of Barry Maxwell (1723-1800), later Baron and then the Earl of Farnham, of County Cavan, Ireland; her ink MS ownership inscriptions to each title-page; 2) by descent to Lord Farnham; their baronial bookplate of c. 1825 to each pastedown; 3) J. Hadfield, 20th century pictorial bookplate to each pastedown.