A New Biographical Dictionary Containing A Brief Account Of The Lives And Writings Of The Most

by Stephen Jones

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

London: Longman, Hurst et al. , 1805. 16mo, pp. 6 plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; full contemporary speckled calf, red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; lightly rubbed; very good. In his Preface Jones credits the assistance of a dozen helpers, among them William Boscawen, the translator of Horace; John Nicols, the indefatigable illustrator of the History of Leicestershire ... to whom British biography in particular, certainly owes more than

• Binding: Leather

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