1804 · London
by [Stephens, Alexander]
London: printed for Richard Phillips, No. 71, St. Paul's Church Yard. And sold by Tomas Hurst, Paternoster-Row; Carpenter and Co. Old Bond-Street; John Ginger, 169, Piccadilly; E. Balfour, Edinburgh; J. Archer, Dublin; and by all booksellers. [Price Half a Guinea in Boards.], 1804. 8vo, pp. [6], 567, [1], [23] index, [3] names of others appearing in earlier volumes, [8] Phillips ads; 6 engraved portrait plates, each showing 2 figures; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, gilt titling printed direct on spine; small hole affecting several letters in the 4th leaf of the index, stain in the lower margin of the penultimate leaf, small cracks on spine; on the whole, a very good, sound copy. This is the sixth volume in an ongoing series which ran to 10 volumes in all, and includes brief biographies and notices of Robert Peel, Admiral Cornwallis, the Marquis of Wellesley (i.e. the future Duke of Wellington), Thomas Grenville, General Paoli, Lady Hamilton, and 28 other nobles, lords, bishops, military figures, and the like.
(Inventory #: 66438)