London : Printed for W. Owen, at Homer’s Head, in Fleet-street 1754-55. First Edition
4 vols thick 8vo, Vol.1 Frontis, xvi, 830 pp, plates 1-66, Vol.2. title page, pp 831-1842, plates 67-150, Vol.3. title page, pp. 1843-2646, plates 151-225 Vol 4. title page pp.2647-3538, plates 226-302, cont. calf, 2-line fillet borders in gilt, recently stoutly rebacked, morocco labels, new fly-leaves, frontispiece in vol.1 supplied in facsimile, some off-set from leather turn-ins on first and last pages, a sound copy with all 302 copper engraved plates. Book label in gothic type of “F.H.T. Steatfeild” on each front paste-down.

[Augsburg : Martin Engelbrecht c. 1740/50], 1750. 230 x 185 mm, diorama of 6 leaves and procenium arch, engravings on card cut out and with contemporary hand colouring, contained in a contemporary (?original) wrapper with the German title in ink on the front. The conditon of the prints is “as new” and it seems possible the wrapper, which is certainly contemporary, is that in which they were sold new.
Martin Engelbrecht is known mainly for his peepshows which were exceedingly popular in the first half of the 18th century and for which he obtained an imperial privilege as shown at the foot of each print. He made three different sizes, of which this is the largest.

[Augsburg : Martin Engelbrecht c. 1740/50], 1750. 230 x 185 mm, diorama of 6 leaves and procenium arch, engravings on card cut out and with contemporary hand colouring, contained in a contemporary (?original) wrapper with the German title in ink on the front. The conditon of the prints is “as new” and it seems possible the wrapper, which is certainly contemporary, is that in which they were sold new.
Martin Engelbrecht is known mainly for his peepshows which were exceedingly popular in the first half of the 18th century and for which he obtained an imperial privilege as shown at the foot of each print. He made three different sizes, of which this is the largest.

[Augsburg : Martin Engelbrecht c. 1740/50], 1750. 230 x 185 mm, diorama of 6 leaves and procenium arch, engravings on card cut out and with contemporary hand colouring, contained in a contemporary (?original) wrapper with the German title in ink on the front. The conditon of the prints is “as new” and it seems possible the wrapper, which is certainly contemporary, is that in which they were sold new.
Martin Engelbrecht is known mainly for his peepshows which were exceedingly popular in the first half of the 18th century and for which he obtained an imperial privilege as shown at the foot of each print. He made three different sizes, of which this is the largest.

London : Printed for D. Browne, sen. & jun. W. Mears, F. Clay; Fletcher Gyles; and T. Osborne, 1727. Second Edition
Folio 2 vcols in 1, engraved portrait, 2 folding tables, title in red and black, (13 lls), xxvi, 190 pp, (91 lls), Title to vol 2 (”Reliquae Spelmannianae”), (7 lls), 256 pp, (12 lls), some foxing in places, old half calf, marbled boards, later endpapers, newly rebacked, engraved armorial bookplate of “ Robert and Cecilia Tubbs” inscription on front fly leaf “F. Stroud Read / Brondesbury Park, August 25 . 1922”

Warrington: Printed by William Eyres: and sold by T. Cadell, J. Johnson. and C. Dilly in London. 1784. Third Edition
4to, [A]4, B-Z, Aa-Zz, 3A-3S4, 3T 2+1, complete with 1/2-title and “Directions to the Book-binder”, 22 engraved plates, many folding, contemporary 1/2 roan, marbled bds, some skinning to boards, joints a little tender, head of spine chipped, heraldic ex-libris of Howard Vyse on front paste down, a respectable copy.
Of the first edition [1777], Printing and the Mind of Man says “His single-handed campaign not only caused a revolution in his lifetime but is the direct progenitor of subsequent work in the most critical branch of penal reform.”
ESTC T115096