The speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning. With a memoir of his life by R. Therry, Esq. ... In six volumes.
George Canning, MP (1770 - 1827)
Category
Books
Date
1828
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3217779
Summary
Bibliographic description
6v., plates (some folded) : facsims., port. ; 23cm (8vo). Bookseller's pencil marks on verso of frontis, v.1. Provenance: nineteenth-century crest bookplate, after 1831, with earl’s coronet: Lichfield [i.e. Thomas William Anson, 2nd Viscount Anson, created Earl of Lichfield, 1831 (1795-1854); and also used by subsequent earls]. Binding: nineteenth-century green calf; double gilt fillet and blind roll border; five false bands; gilt spines, board edges and turn-ins; spine stamped with Lichfield cypher and earl's coronet in gold. (Uniform with others in set of political speeches; whole set in poor condition.)
Makers and roles
George Canning, MP (1770 - 1827) Sir Roger Therry (1800-1874)