B26813
Shelfmark
Iaa3.5.18-Iaa3.5.19
Title
The eloquence of the British Senate :, being a selection of the best speeches of the most distinguished parliamentary speakers, from the beginning of the reign of Charles I to the present time /, with notes, biographical, critical, and explanatory by William Hazlitt, in two volumes.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London :, Printed for J. Murray, Fleet-Street, and J. Harding, St. James's-Street, London, and A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh,, 1808.
Physical description
2v. ([4], viii, 526 ; [4], 592 p.) ;, 22 cm.
Provenance
Both vols with armorial bookplate of Eton College School Library recording donation: "Major General Villiers Hatton" (typed).
Provenance
Both vols with armorial bookplate of Villiers Hatton.
Provenance
Both vols with ms. bookseller's note, code, and price in pencil.
Provenance
Vol 1 with booklabel of John Hunter, Craigerook.
Provenance
Vol 2 with ms. inscription: "Secretan, 1855, Croydon".
Binding
Both vols with 19th century red straight-grain morocco with gilt tooling, and gilt lettering on spine ; fore-edge landscape paintings, vol 1 of Westminster, vol 2 of St Paul's and edges gilt ; bound by Taylor and Hessey (binder's stamp on upper board edge).
Copy-specific note
Both vols with ms. previous shelfmarks in pencil.
Subject
Great Britain (Place), Politics and government, 1603-1714.
Subject
Great Britain (Place), Politics and government, 1714-1820.
Added entry--name
Hatton, former owner.
Added entry--name
Hunter Watt, former owner.
Added entry--name
harding, publisher.
Added entry--name
John Taylor, binder.
Added entry--name
john murray, publisher.
Added entry--name
archibald, publisher.
Added entry--place
England, London.
B26813
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