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Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
GIFFORD, JOHN. A History of the Political Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt. 2 engraved portraits in Volume 1 (both heavily foxed, offsetting onto facing pages). Half-titles. 3 volumes. Large 4to, 335x272 mm, contemporary straight-grain morocco handsomely gilt, yellow silk doublures and endleaves, moderate wear; scattered marginal foxing, several leaves browned in Volume 2. London, 1809
first edition. large-paper set. With the armorial bookplates of Mathew Wilson and his step-daughter, the noted female bibliophile Frances Mary Richardson Currer (sold as lot 286 at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 1 June 1916).
