W Belsham: History of Great Britain from the Revolution to the Accession of the House of Hanover [2 volumes]. , London: printed for G G and J Robinson, 1798.

First edition, complete as issued in two hardback volumes (although the work was later expanded to twelve volumes). 8vo, 472pp; 426pp, xxvi, 123pp. Uniformly bound in full brown speckled calf, black morocco title labels to the spines, marbled endpapers. Bindings rubbed, title labels chipped, preliminary pages foxed, heraldic bookplate to the front pastedown of volume 1. Overall, this is a sound set in good plus condition. Bound in at the back of volume 2 is a further work by the same author: Two Historic Dissertations, (I) on the causes of the ministerial secession AD 1717 (II) on the Treaty of Hanover concluded AD 1725, with some prefatory remarks, in reply to the animadversions of the Rev William Coxe, in his memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole (London, 1798, first edition). (Book ref. 23580)  £150.00

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