Author: Wright, Thomas.
Title: HISTORY OF THE REIGNS OF GEORGE IV. AND WILLIAM IV., Being a Continuation of Hume, Smollett, amd Miller’s History of England To the Present Time, Including the History of the Reform in Parliament.
Description: London: Published by Jones & Company, 1836. 1st Ed. xi + 627pp. 2 engraved portraits (foxed). Text in two columns. Light browning, ex.-libris Sir Julian Goldsmid of Somerhill Kent, contemporary calf with dec. gilt fillet to edges, minor marking and several light scratches, dec. gilt motifs and tooling with gilt lettered label to lightly cracked spine, sm. splits to tails of joints. ¶ Very detailed chronicle of the period 1821 to 1832 the compilation of whcih was taken over by Wright, later to be one of the foremost literary and historical antiquaries. Wright was one of the founders of the Camden Society.

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