[Rarebooks] fa: MEMOIRS OF GEORGE IV - Robert Huish - 2 vols./Morocco Bindings/Plates - 1831

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, June 12. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


Robert Huish: Memoirs of George the Fourth, Descriptive of the Most Interesting Scenes of His Private and Public Life, and the Important Events of His Memorable Reign; With Characteristic Sketches of All the Celebrated Men Who were His Friends and Companions as a Prince, and His Ministers and Counsellors as a Monarch. London: Printed for T. Kelly [et al], [1831]. Two volumes, tall 8vo (22 cm), in nineteenth-century half morocco and pebbled cloth, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, marbled page edges; 572 pp.; 427, [1] pp.; extra engraved title-page and frontispiece in each volume, plus 16 additional plates (complete).

While the printed title-page of vol. II bears the date 1830, both engraved title-pages are dated 1831. Bindings with some sunning to the edges and spines, a few small scuffs; offsetting from plates, toning and spotting to title-pages and frontispieces, some plates with scattered foxing, occasional spots to the text, otherwise the contents are quite clean and sound, firmly bound.