An account of John Westcote, late porter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Harrington. In which is laid down an effectual method for preventing theft and robbery ...

London, A. Henderson [1765?]

1 p. l., 21 p. 20 cm.

LWL 49 1609 9:9: Horace Walpole's note on title-page: January 1765.

Another edition gives name as Wesket, which seems to be the usual spelling.--cf. Monthly Review, v. 32, p. 79-80 (Jan. 1765).

Strawberry Hill Sale, day iii, lot 110, to Thorpe, £36.15.0; offered in Thorpe's Supplement for 1842; purchased by Henry Labouchere, later Baron Taunton; sold by his grandson at Sotheby's, 2 December 1920 (Stanley Sale), lots 454-5, to Quaritch, £248; sold by Quaritch to Sir Leicester Harmsworth.

English

June 01, 2002