Traditions and recollections; domestic, clerical and literary; in which are included letters of Charles II, Cromwell, Fairfax, Edgecumbe, Macaulay, Wolcot, Opie, Whitaker, Gibbon, Buller, Courtney, Moore, Downman, Drewe, Seward, Darwin, Cowper, Hayley, Hardinge, Sir Walter Scott, and other distinguished characters . In two volumes

Polwhele, R[ichard]

Published by printed by and for John Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament Street, London, 1826

About this Item

First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 360; iii, [1], 361-820; 8-page catalogue for John Nichols tipped in at the front of volume I; engraved frontispiece portrait, 5 engraved plates (4 double-page); original pink paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; spines chipped and cracked, upper joint on volume I cracked, half of the label on volume I chipped away, label on volume II chipped with loss of several letters; a good copy, at best. A lending library copy, with a bifoliate Rules for the "Book Society," pasted in at the front pastedown on volume I, signed in print Wm. Baugh, Secretary; and a lengthy printed subscriber list (presumably the paid members of the Society) pasted in at the back listing 24 names with check-out and check-in dates. At the top of p. 2 of the Rules, in manuscript: "This set of books to be kept 14 days / 7 days each vol." With a (likely) later ownership signature in each volume of J. A. Cotton, almost certainly the Rev. J. A. Cotton whose name appears in the list of subscribers. Based on subscriptions to Edinburgh journals and papers my sense is this is a Scottish lending library.

Seller Inventory # 66963

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Traditions and recollections; domestic, clerical and literary; in which are included letters of Charles II, Cromwell, Fairfax, Edgecumbe, Macaulay, Wolcot, Opie, Whitaker, Gibbon, Buller, Courtney, Moore, Downman, Drewe, Seward, Darwin, Cowper, Hayley, Hardinge, Sir Walter Scott, and other distinguished characters . In two volumes
• Publisher: printed by and for John Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament Street, London
• Publication Date: 1826
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Literature