First edition
[OLDMIXON, John].
Memoirs of the Life of John Lord Somers. Containing, as well several of his Lordship's arguments in law, as his speeches in Parliament. With a large introduction, in vindication of the modern biography. Occasion'd by some general reflections upon it in the Free-Holder.
London, Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1716.
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The first edition of this biography of the jurist and politician John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord High Chancellor of England under William III, and one of the chief architects of the Union of England and Scotland in 1707.
This copy without the portrait sometimes found, but with 10 pages of terminal advertisement not called for by ESTC. This copy bound in contemporary panelled calf from the North Library of the Earls of Macclesfield.
First edition; 8vo (19 x 12 cm); lacking portrait frontispiece, 10pp ads present to rear (not called for in ESTC), bookplate to front pastedown, blindstmap to half-title, title and B1, a little toned; contemporary panelled calf, brown morocco lettering-piece to spine, paper library labels, upper joint slightly cracked but holding, a little rubbed with loss to spine caps; [4], 126, [10]pp.
ESTC T79694.
This copy without the portrait sometimes found, but with 10 pages of terminal advertisement not called for by ESTC. This copy bound in contemporary panelled calf from the North Library of the Earls of Macclesfield.
First edition; 8vo (19 x 12 cm); lacking portrait frontispiece, 10pp ads present to rear (not called for in ESTC), bookplate to front pastedown, blindstmap to half-title, title and B1, a little toned; contemporary panelled calf, brown morocco lettering-piece to spine, paper library labels, upper joint slightly cracked but holding, a little rubbed with loss to spine caps; [4], 126, [10]pp.
ESTC T79694.
Stock code 119031
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Memoirs of the Life of John Lord Somers.
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£350.00
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£350.00
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