Shelfmark
Iaa3.5.18-Iaa3.5.19
Title
The eloquence of the British Senate : being a selection of the best speeches of the most distinguished parliamentary speakers, from the beginning of the reign of Charles I to the present time / with notes, biographical, critical, and explanatory by William Hazlitt, in two volumes.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for J. Murray, Fleet-Street, and J. Harding, St. James's-Street, London, and A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh, 1808.
Physical description
2v. ([4], viii, 526 ; [4], 592 p.) ; 22 cm.
Provenance
Both vols with armorial bookplate of Eton College School Library recording donation: "Major General Villiers Hatton" (typed).
Provenance
Both vols with armorial bookplate of Villiers Hatton.
Provenance
Both vols with ms. bookseller's note, code, and price in pencil.
Provenance
Vol 1 with booklabel of John Hunter, Craigerook.
Provenance
Vol 2 with ms. inscription: "Secretan, 1855, Croydon".
Binding
Both vols with 19th century red straight-grain morocco with gilt tooling, and gilt lettering on spine ; fore-edge landscape paintings, vol 1 of Westminster, vol 2 of St Paul's and edges gilt ; bound by Taylor and Hessey (binder's stamp on upper board edge).
Copy-specific note
Both vols with ms. previous shelfmarks in pencil.
Subject
Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1714.
Subject
Great Britain Politics and government 1714-1820.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 former owner.
Added entry--name
Hunter Watt, John former owner.
Added entry--name
Harding, John publisher.
Added entry--name
Taylor and Hessey binder.
Added entry--name
John Murray publisher.
Added entry--name
Archibald Constable & Co publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B26813