First edition. 12mo in 6s. pp xii, 192. Frontis present. Attractive full calf, gilt spine, raised bands, contrasting label, all edges gilt, by J. Clarke, with his small stamp to verso of fly-leaf. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed, frontis a little foxed, but very good clean condition overall. Armorial bookplate of Charles Henry Edward Fortnum, book label of Charles Francis Bell. BOUND WITH a manuscript one-page note of Dr Parr by Charles Francis Bell dated 1899, plus several more pages of extracts concerning him. Bell writes ‘Bought at the sale of Dr Fortnum’s Book. Dr Parr, the intimate friend of my great-grandfather, the Rev. Edward Forster and of his father Dr Nathaniel Forster of Colchester, lived from 1771 to 1776 in a house which stood on part of the ground later belonging to Hill House, Stanmore, in which lived and died Dr Fortnum, the patron and friend under whose auspices I entered the service of the University of Oxford.