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Sat, Mar 28, 2020 12:00PM EDT
Lot 101

Memoirs of a Social Monster;

Estimate: $150 - $250

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Memoirs of a Social Monster; or, the History of Charles Price?Commonly Called Old Patch, Containing an accurate Account of the astonishing Fraud and ingenious Forgeries of that truly Great Man. London: G. Kearsley, 1786. Modern quarter leather over marbled boards, aged red morocco label titled in gilt, compartments ruled in gilt. Half-title, folding frontispiece laid down archivally. 12mo. xxii, 348pp. Occasional soiling and smudging at margins, new endpapers, lacking the other folding plate of the facsimile letter.