Public Characters by Stated (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Half calf hardback with gilt lettered spine, top edge gilt. Moderately rubbed and very slightly worn at extremities, nonetheless showing well, firm and square, strong hinges. Contents tight and clean, very tidy, no pen-marks, just some age toning and occasional browning. Size: 8vo (225mm x 150mm). Collation: pp. xiv, [2], 528, complete with a large fold-out frontispiece (which is in very good order: very clean with no splits) showing thirty small portrait sketches. Note: a landmark work: The first ever biographical account of Lord Nelson. Thus a very good copy in pleasing condition. Scarce.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Three popular Georgian volumes on the prominent people in their society of the day, illustrated with folding frontispieces. In three volumes.Volumes II and III are the first editions. Volume I is the second edition.Bound with a unique polkadot design to the top, fore, and bottom edges.Three volumes of these popular biographical anthologies, containing brief pieces on the lives of many prominent figures of the Georgian era.Including biographies on William Pitt, Charles Darwin, William Herschel, William Wilberforce, the Duke of Marlborough, and more.Illustrated with a folding frontispiece to each volume.Volume I is the 1798-99 edition, Volume II 1799-1800, Volume III 1800-1801.This work was published annually, updated with with biographies on the popular or controversial figures of the day.From the library of the theologian John Fawcett, with his bookplate to the front pastedowns of Volumes I and III. Bookplate of the Laurence Family to the front pastedowns.Five pages of publishers adverts to the 1798-99 volume. Three pages of publisher's adverts to the 1799-1800 volume. Eight pages of publisher's adverts to the 1800-01 volume. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards, and a spotted design to the top, fore, and bottom edges. Externally, generally smart, spines are a little faded and rubbed. Minor rubbing to the boards. Light bumping to the extremities. Rubbing and a little loss to the spine labels. Bookplate to the front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with just the occasional spot, mostly to the first and last few pages. Folding frontispieces are repaired to the reverse. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Handsomely bound in half calf, this is a wonderful collection of four volumes of Richard Phillips's biographies of important public figures. The first edition of four volumes of this ongoing series offering short biographies of important public figures in early 19th century England. Present here are: Public Characters of 1801-1802, pub. 1801, illustrated with two plates. Collated, complete. Public Characters of 1802-1803, pub. 1803, illustrated with four plates. Collated, complete. Public Characters of 1805, pub. 1805, illustrated with a frontispiece and three further plates. Collated, complete. Public Characters of 1807, pub. 1807, illlustrated with a frontispiece and one further plate. Collated, complete. Figures discussed include Dr. John Moore, the Bishop of Lincoln, Professor Carlyle, Francis Burdett, the Duchess of Devonshire, Alan Lord Gardner, Lord Somervilee and Sir William Scott. Rebound, with endpapers renewed. With advertisements to three of the four volumes present. Rebound in half calf with marbled paper covered boards, with endpapers renewed. A touch of rubbing to back strips, otherwise externally fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned due to paper type, with light handling marks and instances of spotting throughout. Light tide marks to perimeters of a number of leave to 1805 volume. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…