Philadelphia: H. Maxwell, for J. Nancrede, Boston; and A. Dickins and J. Ormrod, Philadelphia, 1800. Hardcover. viii, 9-481p. 19th century quarter calf over marbled boards with marbled endpapers. Thomas James Mathias (1754-1835) was a British scholar and author. The Pursuit of Literature is by far his most famous work. The.....