LITTLE BOOKS (PETER DAVIES)
Series Note:
The series editor was Charles Whibley. The publisher, Peter Davies, was located at 30 Henrietta Street, London.
Format: "Each volume Royal 12mo, bound in paper boards.Twenty-five copies" [of most of the titles] "have been bound in full leather. The edition in each case is limited to two thousand copies for sale."
(Source: Publisher's advertisement at end of Lord Chesterfield's Characters in this series:
click here )
Arranged alphabetically by title
Lord Chesterfield's Characters
by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
1927
Includes reproduction of title-page of original edition, London, 1778. "We have in this reprint followed the first edition and corrected and added to it by a comparison with Lord Mahon's edition of 1854"--Introductory note. "This edition is limited to two thousand copies for sale"--Title page verso. (Source)
Online copy: click here
James Wright's Country Conversations
by James Wright
1927
"Attributed to Wright by Wing and NUC pre-1956 imprints
[Edition] limited to 2000 copies
Title vignette
Original t.p. reads: Country conversations: being an account of some discourses that happen'd in a visit to the country last summer, on divers subjects ... London, printed for Henry Bonwicke, 1694
At head of title: Little books edited by Charles Whibley
Publisher's advertisement: List of little books p. [1] at end". (Source)
Lord Halifax's Character of King Charles the Second
by George Savile Halifax
1927
"Reprint of the 1750 edition, with an added introduction
'This edition limited to two thousand copies for sale.'
'A list of little books edited by Charles Whibley and published by Peter Davies ...' at end' " (Source)
Sir Matthew Hale's Discourse Touching Provision for the Poor (1683)
by Sir Matthew Hale
1927
"This reprint is made from the first edition, printed in 1683, 'by H. Hille, for John Leigh at Stationers Hall, and are to be sold by the book-sellers in London.'"--Page v. Includes reproduction of the original title page. "The edition is limited to two thousand copies for sale"--Title page verso. (Source)
Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia, or Urne-burial
by Sir Thomas Browne
1927
"Reproduction of: Hydriotaphia, urne-buriall, or, A discourse on the sepulchrall urnes lately found in Norfolk / by Thomas Browne. London : Printed for Hen. Brome, 1658
Edition limited to 2000 copies, of which 25 are leather bound." (Source)
Sir W. Raleigh's Instructions to His Son and to Posterity
by Sir Walter Raleigh
1927
"Reprint of the first edition; printed in 1632, by Benjamin Fisher" (Source)
Author:
David Paul Wagner
