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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. First Edition. First edition. Hardback. No dust jacket. First Edition.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

1st edition. Good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Previous owner's bookplate. Hinges starting in vol. 1. Four pages detached in vol. 2. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remain quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 2 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles. Contents: Vol.1. Richard Brinsley Sheridan's progenitors -- Life's springtime -- Life at Bath -- Literary schemes -- Love-making and duelling -- From Bath to East Burnham -- Married and unsettled -- On the flood-tide of fortune -- Monarch of Drury Lane -- Drury Lane to St. Stephen's -- In political harness -- Cabinet-making and coalition -- Appendix -- v.2. Theatrical and domestic -- On the treadmill in opposition -- "Fighting for the crown" -- Home joys and sorrows -- Buffeted by fortune -- Theatre and parliament -- Second marriage and after years -- Calamitous years -- Eyes closed "in endless night" -- Characteristics as a dramatist -- Characteristics as an orator -- The verdict of posterity? -- Appendix -- Index. Subjects: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 1751-1816. Dramatists, English ; Biography. English comedy 18th century. Great Britain History 1789-1820. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked leather. Gilt titles and motif to front panel. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: 'Nottingham Subscription Library' bookplate to front pastedown. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 318 pages; Physical description: 318 p ; 20.5 cm. Subjects: Thomas Cook and Son -- Studies -- Publishers -- London -- Travel and tourism-- 19th century. Notes: History of the origin and progress of the business of Thomas Cook, travel agents. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. viii, 316. with half-title. original cloth (library bookplate, embossed stamp on title, markings on spine, spine ends & front joint frayed). First Edition. Including chapters on Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Boston, Saratoga, West Point, Toronto.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. 15 ('Banquet To Commemorate The Fiftieth Year.'), [10], 318. original gilt-stamped cloth (extremities & front joint frayed, tear to upper spine, bookplate removed from front paste-down, ink number in lower margin on one page). First Edition.