Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff.
London: T. Cadell, 1817. 4to (270 x 200 mm). Frontispiece portrait. Contemporary full straight grained blue morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, spine tooled and lettered in gilt and blind, gilt turn-ins with Greek key device, pink watered endpapers, a.e.g. Condition: covers strengthened at hinges. slight browning and foxing , slightly worn. Provenance: Contemporary gift inscription from Dorothy Watson, Richard Watson's widow (naming him as the Bishop of Landaff), to the Marquis of Hastings; W.A. Harding of Madingley (small booklabel); Estelle Doheny (small booklabel). the doheny copy; with a gift inscription from bishop watson's widow. Also tipped into this volume is a manuscript copy of a poem in the hand of Dorothy Watson, on her mourning stationery, entitled "On Bishop Watson" by William Hayley. With a fore-edge view of carnarvon castle.
Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff.
London: T. Cadell, 1817. 4to (270 x 200 mm). Frontispiece portrait. Contemporary full straight grained blue morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, spine tooled and lettered in gilt and blind, gilt turn-ins with Greek key device, pink watered endpapers, a.e.g. Condition: covers strengthened at hinges. slight browning and foxing , slightly worn. Provenance: Contemporary gift inscription from Dorothy Watson, Richard Watson's widow (naming him as the Bishop of Landaff), to the Marquis of Hastings; W.A. Harding of Madingley (small booklabel); Estelle Doheny (small booklabel). the doheny copy; with a gift inscription from bishop watson's widow. Also tipped into this volume is a manuscript copy of a poem in the hand of Dorothy Watson, on her mourning stationery, entitled "On Bishop Watson" by William Hayley. With a fore-edge view of carnarvon castle.
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