The speeches of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan. With a sketch of his life. Edited by a constitutional friend.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
Category
Books
Date
1842
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3217800
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v. : front. (port.) ; 23cm (8vo). 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
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), author