Author: FOSTER (Sir Michael). DODSON (Michael):
Title: The Life of Sir Michael Foster, Sometime one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench and Record of Bristol. By his Nephew, The Late Micharel Dodson, Barrister at Law.
Description: London: Printed [by J. Nichols and Son...] for J. Johnson and Co...., 1811 Tall 8vo, 238 x 132 mms., pp. viii, 93 [94 blank], engraved portrait (off-setting on title-page), attractively bound in full contemporary red morocco, panelled in gilt and blind on cover, gilt spine, all edges gilt; mild foxing throughout (Preface rather more severely foxed), some slight wear to spine, but a very good copy, with the armorial bookplate of Michael Foster Ward on the front paste-down end-paper, and on the recto of the front free end-paper, a transcript from one of Horace Walpole's letters to George Montau, describing Sir Michael's death as a "greater loss to his country than the prim attorney general...." The nephew, Michael Dodson (1732 - 1799) made a draft, dated 7 February 1795, of his uncle's life, which he sent to editor of Biographia Britannica, Andrew Kippis (1725 - 1795), and it was published in the last issue of that journal, most copies of which were destroyed in a later fire. The present edition was prepared by the barrister and art collector John Disney (1779 - 1857). It was warmly and lengthily (twelve pages) reviewed in The Monthly Review for 1813, concluding "we have no doubt that this small volume will be esteemed a valuable addition both to legal and general biography."

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