Author: Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings.
Title: Reminiscences and Opinions of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle 1813-1885.
Description: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887. 1887. - Octavo, brown cloth. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. ix & 420 pages plus 2-page publisher's catalog. The fore-edge, bottom edge & prelims are lightly foxed with occasional foxing to the text pages. There is an owner's pencil signature on the title page. Good.

First American edition.

While downplaying his own claims to fame, literary or otherwise, Doyle remarks that he has lived through important periods of history and has enjoyed the friendship of "several eminent persons" [William Gladstone and others]. Good .

Keywords: HISTORY; BRITAIN; MEMOIRS; AUTOBIOGRA[HY; REMINISCENCES AND OPINIONS OF SIR FRANCIS H. DOYLE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.

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