Letters from a Moor at London to his friend at Tunis.

Containing an account of his journey through England, with his observations on the laws, customs, religion, and manners of the English nation. Likewise Remarks on the public charities, with curious memoirs relating to the life of Mr. Sutton founder of the Charter-House. A description of Bedlam, with serious reflections on love, madness and self-murder. The whole interspersed with historical remarks and useful observations. London : J. Batley and J. Wood, and Richard Wellington, 1736. Duodecimo, contemporary calf, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, contrasting title label lettered in gilt (rubbed and scuffed), bookseller’s label of John Manning of Launceston (Sells Wholesale and Retale), owner’s inscription to endpaper, pp. [ii], 274, woodcut head pieces, and tail piece.

Very scarce description of eighteenth century London and England in the Orientalist guise of letters between a Moor and an Arab.

With a large and rather wonderful late eighteenth century bookseller’s label measuring 65 x 95 mm for the Cornwall bookseller ‘John Manning In Launceston, Sells Wholesale and Retale, All sorts of very good Writing-Paper, Sealing-Wax, Painted Paper for Lining Rooms, Maps and Pictures, Bound Books of all Sorts, Ink, Ink-Powder, Cards, and all other Sorts of Stationary Wares, &c. at the most reasonable Rates’.