The defenceless state of Great Britain. By Sir Francis B. Head, Bart.
Sir Francis Bond Head, Bt. (1793-1875)
Category
Books
Date
1850
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3224337
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv, [2], 410, 16 p. ; 20cm (12mo). Imperfect: wants final advertisement pages. Pencil annotation, p.[1]. Provenance: non-indigenous. Nineteenth-century crest bookplate, with monogram ‘RBS’ [i.e: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1809-1888)]. Pencil annotation on dedication: "To our better halves the 'unprotected females' ... ". Binding: nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper on boards; gold tooled spine; gold lettered red and black spine labels.
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Bond Head, Bt. (1793-1875), author