Accession number
PML 142172-73
Creator
Junius, active 18th century.
Published
London : Printed by T. Bensley, for Vernor and Hood, 1796.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Added engraved and illustrated t.p. in v.1 and 2, dated 1797.
Illustrated with 16 engraved portraits of royalty and statesmen of the day, executed by W. Ridley.
Authorship disputed; originally published in Henry Sampson Woodfall's Public Advertiser, between Jan. 21, 1768 and Jan. 21, 1772, as a series of letters attacking among others the Duke of Grafton, Lord Mansfield, and George III. He is generally thought to have been Sir Philip Francis--Oxford Companion to English Literature, 4th ed., p. 440.
"Directions for placing the cuts"--v. 1, facing p. i.
Vol. 1: xl, 325, [8] leaves of plates; v. 2: 366, [8] leaves of plates.
Illustrated with 16 engraved portraits of royalty and statesmen of the day, executed by W. Ridley.
Authorship disputed; originally published in Henry Sampson Woodfall's Public Advertiser, between Jan. 21, 1768 and Jan. 21, 1772, as a series of letters attacking among others the Duke of Grafton, Lord Mansfield, and George III. He is generally thought to have been Sir Philip Francis--Oxford Companion to English Literature, 4th ed., p. 440.
"Directions for placing the cuts"--v. 1, facing p. i.
Vol. 1: xl, 325, [8] leaves of plates; v. 2: 366, [8] leaves of plates.
Description
2 v., [16] leaves of plates : ports. ; 24 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
18th or 19th century red morocco, tooled in gilt.
Classification
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