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(i) DACRE, Charlotte, known as "Rosa MATILDA." The Libertine ... second edition , London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807, 12°, 4 volumes, second ediiton, half titles, advertisement leaf for The Italian and other Cadell and Davies novels at end of vol. III (vol. I with large piece torn from lower margin of h2 and with tear to M3 caused by paper fault, quire D in vol. III soiled in places, K7v in vol. IV soiled at lower margin), contemporary half calf over red marbled boards, flat-backed spines titled and numbered in gilt (spines of vols. I-II a little frayed at head, upper joints of vol. I cracking). [Summers p. 385] (ii) GUNNING, Mrs (Susannah). Delves; A Welch Tale ... the second edition , London: Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1796, 2 volumes, 12°, second edition (title to vol. I torn across blank area and repaired with paper on verso, H7r of the first vol. stained, B5 of vol. II a little soiled at foot, other occasional minor stains and soil marks), contemporary half calf over red marbled boards, flat-backed spines titled and numbered in gilt. [Summers p. 293. A RARE WORK. ESTCm records only one copy of the second edition, and one copy of the third, published in 1797, both in BL. There is no entry for the first edition] (iii) OPIE, Amelia. Adeline Mowbray; or, The Mother and Daughter, a tale ... the second edition , London: Longman [etc.], 1805, 3 volumes, small 8°, second edition, with blank at end of vol. II (lacking advertisement leaf at end of vol. I, title to vol. I heavily spotted in lower part and with upper margin excised, severe ink staining to S8v and T1r of the final vol.), contemporary half calf over blue marbled boards, flat-backed spines titled and numbered in gilt. [cf. Block p. 176] (9)