FIRST EDITION. ORIGINAL GREEN BLIND-STAMPED CLOTH. EX. LIBRARY (HOUSE OF RETREAT INCHICORE DUBLIN) WITH LABEL AND PREVIOUS OWNER’S BOOKPLATE. WEAKNESS TO FRONT HINGE SPLIT BETWEEN SPINE AND BACK BOARD OTHERWISE VERY GOOD. SCARCE.
FIRST EDITIONS. TWO BOOKS BOUND IN ONE. QUARTO FULL LEATHER REBOUND AT SOME STAGE USING PART OF THE ORIGINAL SPINE. THE LEATHER IS WORN IN PARTS BUT THE BINDING FIRM AND SOLID. JOHN HOUGH (1651-1743) WAS SUCCESSIVELY BISHOP OF OXFORD LICHFIELD AND COVENTRY AND WORCESTER. CONTAINS MANY OF HIS LETTERS AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF SEVERAL PERSONS WITH WHOM HE WAS CONNECTED. FRONTISPIECE OF HOUGH PREFACE (xvi) LIFE (387 pp). ALSO BOUND IN IS THE LIFE OF SIR JOHN EARDLEY WILMOT BY JOHN WILMOT 1802 PRINTED BU LUKE HANSARD AND SOLD BY T CADELL. SIR JOHN WAS LORD CHIEF JUSTICE 1766 – 1771. FRONTISPIECE OF SIR JOHN TITLE ADVERTISEMENT 77pp FULL ENGRAVED PLATE OF SIR JOHN 3pp BLANKS. THE BOOK CARRIES AN INSCRIPTION ‘MARIA MASON WILMOT FROM HER AFFECTIONATE FATHER 24TH DEC. 1811’ PRESUMABLY FROM JOHN WILMOT TO HIS DAUGHTER. ALSO THE TITLE PAGE OF THE LIFE OF SIR JOHN WILMOT IS SIGNED ‘JOHN WILMOT’. (THE AUTHOR OF THIS WORK NOT BEING PRINTED ON THE TITLE PAGE).
