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‎The Letters of Thomas Burnet to George Duckett 1712 - 1722. Edited by David Nichol Smith.‎

‎ Oxford, printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club, 1914, in-4°, 30 x 22,5 cm, frontispiece portrait + xlii pp + 325 pp, indexed, bound in red half morocco, raised spine with gilt title, top-edge gilt, printed on high quality paper, title printed in red and black. This is the member publication 165 of the Roxburghe Club. The edition was proposed by the Marquess of Crewe. On the first fly leaf is an autograph ex-dono by the marquess, also a tipped-in printed ex-libris of the receiver on the first paste down. Ex library copy with a faint circular stamp on the title page. Binding with some slight scratches and wear at the extremeties. Still a good/fine copy, with a spotless interior. Rare, the book was printed by Horace Hart at the Oxford University Press in probably no more than 100 copies.‎