Author: WRAXALL (Nathaniel William):
Title: Historical Memoirs of my Own Time. Part the First, from 1772 to 1780. Part the Second, from 1781 to 1784. Second Edition.
Description: London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies..., 1815. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. vii [viii blank], 561 [562 blank]; [iv], 602, including half-title in volume 2, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume 1, contemporary tree calf, giLt spines, red morocco label on volume 2 only; joints cracked (but frim). Nathaniel William Wraxall (1751 - 1831) was made a baronet in 1813, and the first edition of the above memoirs, published in 1815, sold out within a month; this second edition omits some details found in the first edition. The work was severely reviewed in most of the literary journals.

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