Fitz-Adam, Adam [Moore, Edward] — The World in Four Volumes. 4 volume set

G : in good condition. Covers rubbed and scuffed. Browning to prelims. Some foxing London J Dodsley New Edition 180mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). 327pp, [xiii]; 323pp, [xiii]; 312pp, [xii]; 338pp, [vi]. Heraldic book-plate of John Blenkinsopp Coulson. The World, was a weekly periodical started in 1753 and devoted to satirising the vices and follies of fashionable society. Contributors were men of fashion including Lords Lyttelton, Bath, and Chesterfield, Soame Jenyns, Horace Walpole, and Edward Lovibond. Edward Moore was know as a fabulist and dramatist [1712-1757] whose best work was 'Fables for the Female Sex' (1744).