Historical Memoirs of My Own Time; Part the First, from 1772 to 1780. Part the Second from 1781 to 1784

London: T. Cadell and W. Davies; Richard Bentley, 1815. First Edition. Full leather. Near fine. First editions of the Historical Memoirs of My Own Time (1815) and the Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time (1836) by Nathaniel William Wraxall, finely bound as one set.. Octavo, [five volumes], iv, 549pp; 583pp, xii, 441pp; 374pp; 440pp. Full leather, gilt borders and turn-ins. Five raised bands on gilt-embellished spines, title in gilt on morocco label affixed to spine. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Bound by Riviere & Son. Solid text blocks, light wear to edges, a near fine set. A few short scratches to front cover of Volume II. Frontispiece portrait in Volume I of the Historical Memoirs, and frontispiece portraits in each volume of the Posthumous Memoirs.