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1738800281738. CONSTABLE John. REFLECTIONS UPON ACCURACY OF STYLE. IN FIVE DIALOGUES. London: Printed for John Hawkins 1738. 2nd edition. Octavo. xvi80113-246 pp. lacking two signatures G & H or p. 81-112. Modern half calf and marble paper covered boards with a red leather label and raised bands on spine; new endpapers. Light wear to spine but the label remains bright. Text clean. One leaf L4 has a diagonal closed-tear which has an old repair at the fore-edge. Constable on writing: metaphor style antitheses; commentary on Aristotle Tasso Milton and others. A clean copy attractively bound but missing some text leaves the end of the third essay 'Reflections upon Accuracy of Style'; it is offered with all faults. unknown books