A Biographical Dictionary Of The Living Authors Of Great Britain And Ireland Comprising Literary

by John Watkins Frederic Shoberl

$350 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

London: printed for Henry Colburn, 1816. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 449, 1 ; 20th-century tan cloth-backed green cloth over boards, morocco label lettered in gilt on spine; slight toning of the text but in all, a very good, sound copy. OCLC provides this note: Mr. Frederic Shoberl proceeded to assure me, in the presence of his son, that the work was written by John Watkins as far as the letter F -- that some dispute with the publishers then arose --

• Binding: Leather

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