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Title: Saunders&Apos; Portraits and Memoirs of Eminent Living Political Reformers
Description: London, J. Dowding, 1840. First edition. Leather. First edition of this illustrated collection of biographies of prominent political reformers of the day. The first edition of this work. Containing a series of biographical sketches of important political reformers of the day, including Earl Grey, Lord Melbourne, Earl Spencer, Joseph Hume, Charles Buller, and others. Portraits provided by George Hayter and other eminent artists. Featuring twenty-seven full page plates. Collated, complete.Also included is a historical sketch of the progress of parliamentary reform by William Howitt. Rebound in quarter calf binding over cloth covered boards, renewed endpapers. Externally sound with some shelf wear, spine rubbed to extremities, back strip sunned. Usual library stamps to title page and occasional leaf throughout. Minor tide mark affecting occasional margin, particularly leaves of plates, not affecting the illustration. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Complete with twenty-seven portaits. Good . Ill.: George Hayter. Good .

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