Accession number
PML 142271-72
Creator
Junius, active 18th century.
Published
London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1810.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"W. Wilson, printer, St. John's Square, London."--T.p. verso.
Illustrated with 13 portraits of royalty and statesmen of the day, engraved by W. Ridley and William Holl.
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.
Illustrated with 13 portraits of royalty and statesmen of the day, engraved by W. Ridley and William Holl.
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.
Description
2 v. (xxviii, 237 p., [6] leaves of plates; 251 p., [7] leaves of plates) : ports. ; 17 cm
Provenance
Inscription on 2nd front flyleaf of both volumes: Joseph Ferguson 8 Fisher Street; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary green morocco tooled in gilt.
Classification
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