Public Characters of 1798 9. A New Edition. Enlarged and Corrected to the 25th of March, 1799. To be continued annually.
London. Printed for R. Phillips.1799. Hardcover. 23cm, Second Edition, vii x,(6), 598,(2)pp., folding frontis with 30 portrait drawings, quarter bound in the original boards, ms. spine title, uncut, Wanting missing pages i vi of Preface, a very good sound copy in original boards, (ds1). ~ The first of ten biographical annuals, 1799 1810 of prominent living personages of the times. This volume includes seventy one biographies with thirty portraits portrayed on the frontispiece. The latter include Lord Nelson, Chancellor of Ireland (Lord Clare), Charles James Fox, Joseph Priestley, William Herschel, Charles Burney, General Charles Cornwallis, William Pitt, Erasmus, Darwin, Henry Grattan. Item #38414
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