Description
Memoirs of the Life of The Right Honourable Richard Brinkley Sheridan. By Thomas Moore, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1825, frontispiece of Sheridan, 719 pp, full light brown leather, 11 x 9”, 4to. In good condition. Light wear to extremities with minor scuffing along edges and corners. Boards exhibit scuffing with marks and rubbing. Corners slightly crushed. Joints slightly tender with light creasing and minor cracking at the bottom edge of rear board. Gilt compartments have minor rubbing to decorative pomegranates. Presents handsomely. All edges marbled. Bookplate of Charles William Packe on front pastedown. Binder’s ticket of W. Barratt, Bookbinder Lincolns Inn Fields on rear of fly. Foxing to frontis and tissue guard. Offsetting from plate to title. Internally good with light toning and minor instances of foxing. Free of known marginalia. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Finely bound signed binding by W. Barratt. Previously owned by Charles Packe (1792-1867) a British Conservative Party politician. He inherited Prestwold Hall upon his father’s death in 1837, and later acquired Glen Hall and an 18-acre estate in southern Leicestershire. On his death, Packe owned nearly 2,500 acres in Leicestershire and had amassed a gross personal wealth of 35,000 pounds. First edition of Thomas Moore’s biography of the playwright and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816). COLL1825CKLB-623
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