The speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of Commons.
The Rt. Hon. William Pitt the younger MP (1759-1806)
Category
Books
Date
1808
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3217783
Summary
Bibliographic description
The second edition ... 3 v. ; 8vo. Bookseller’s ticket on rear pastedown: Bought of Willis and Sotheran, booksellers & bookbinders, 42, Charing Cross. 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.) Endpaper stamped: Bound by Hayday & Co.
Makers and roles
The Rt. Hon. William Pitt the younger MP (1759-1806) W. S. Hathaway