Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of William Bowyer, Printer F.S.A. and of Many of his Learned Friends. Containing an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom from the Beginning of the Present Century to the end of the Year MDCCLXXVII.

This is a hardback with marbled paper covered boards (Wide Combed Pattern) and leather covered spine. Written in pencil on the front paste-down is "310 shd have parts and ?". There is also a small label pasted onto the bottom right corner with "William George's Sons LTD Booksellers 89 Park Street, Bristol. The front free end-page has been torn out, but the remaining strip has "p" in ink. Written in ink on the reverse of the 2nd fly is "L"