Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan [2 volume set].
by Moore, Thomas
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825., 1825. Hard Cover. THIRD EDITION, complete in 2 volumes. Octavo, pp viii, 543 & iv, 492. \portrait frontispiece and fold-out facsimile letter to Vol I. Half polished green calf with 4 raised bands, red labels with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to compartments; marbled boards and sprinkled edges. Silk placemarkers. Corners bumped with wear and boards lightly scuffed; very minor loss at head of spine Vol I. Scattered light foxing throughout; no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good set. Biography of his fellow countryman, the statesman & playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by Moore the Irish poet.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5342
- Title
- Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan [2 volume set].
- Author
- Moore, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.
- Date Published
- 1825
- Keywords
- Autobiography & Biography
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
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Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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