DECORATIVE BINDINGS: A collection of biographies, 17th century and later, the majority bound in full leather, to include: Southey (R), THE LIFE OF NELSON, 2 vols, ¾ leather, John Murray, London 1813, Bisset (R), THE LIFE OF EDMUND BURKE, George Cawthorn, London 1798, Barrow (J), SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLIC LIFE AND A SELECTION FROM THE UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS, OF THE EARL OF MACARTNEY, 2 vols, T. Cadell and W. Davies, London 1807, Duck (A), THE LIFE OF HENRY CHICHELE, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, Richard Chilwell, London 1699, GOLDEN REMAINS, OF THE EVER MEMORABLE MR JOHN HALES OF EATON-COLLEGE, printed for George Pawlet, London 1688, Burnet (G) Bishop of Sarum, AN ESSAY ON THE MEMORY OF THE LATE QUEEN, Richard Chilwell, London 1695, Southey (R), THE LIFE OF WESLEY; AND THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF METHODISM, 2 vols, Longman, Hurst et al, London 1820, Walpole (H), REMINISCENCES, S. Hamilton, London 1819, Clarendon (E), THE LIFE OF EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON, 3 vols, Clarendon Printing-House, Oxford 1761, THE LIFE OF THE LATE HONOURABLE ROBERT PRICE Esq, London 1734, etc (Qty) Provenance: The Estate of Lord Kenyon, Gredington. CONDITION REPORT:Life Of Nelson: leather faded from green to brown on spine, with chips, scuffs and shelf wear. Front corners bumped top and bottom. Shelf wear to marbled boards. Extensive foxing to endpapers, half tile pages, frontispieces, title pages and block edges, but only minor foxing to the text pages. Top corners of some pages in both volumes creased.
