[Rarebooks] fa: FRANCIS GROSE - THE OLIO: Being a Collection of Essays &c. - First Edition 1792

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Francis Grose: The Olio: Being a Collection of Essays, Dialogues, Letters, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Pieces of Poetry, Parodies, Bon Mots, Epigrams, Epitaphs, &c. Chiefly Original. By the late Francis Grose, Esq. F. A. S. London: Printed for S. Hooper, No. 212, High Holborn, facing Bloomsbury-Square, MDCCXCII [1792]. FIRST EDITION; 8vo (20.5 cm) in early/period tree calf, gilt-lettered morocco spine label; [10], xiii-xxiii, [1], 321, [3] pp.; may be missing an initial blank leaf, but with the publisher's adverts at the end. ESTC T83278.

A collection of articles, verses, epistles, sketches, anecdotes, jokes and letters by the Falstaffian antiquary and lexicographer Francis Grose (1731-1791). Published the year after his death, the miscellany includes Grose's pieces on William Oldys, John Warburton, Samuel Johnson and John Hawkins, among others, and begins with his twenty-two sketches written under the general title "The Grumbler," sixteen of which were first published in 1791.

Binding with bumping and wear to the extremities with some loss to the crown, creases to the spine, rubbing to the joints; contents with occasional soiling and light spotting, one leaf with a scribble in chalk, but generally clean and sound, the pages unusually bright, and securely bound.