Recollections of the Life of the Late Right Honourable Charles James Fox. WALPOLE (B. C.)

Recollections of the Life of the Late Right Honourable Charles James Fox; Exhibiting a faithful Account of the most remarkable Events of His Political Career, and a Delineation of his Character as a Statesman, Senator, and Man of Fashion. Comprehending Numerous Anecdotes of his Public and Private Life; And an Accurate Description of the Ceremonies which took place at His Funeral, in Westminster Abbey, on the 10th October, 1806.

Engraved frontispiece portrait and engraved additional title (slightly browned).

First Edition. 8vo. [167 x 102 x 26 mm]. viii, 265, [17] pp. Bound in contemporary stained calf, smooth spine divided into six panels by multiple gilt fillets and pallets, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label, the others tooled with an urn within a bower, a floral tool and two birds in a fountain, the edges of the boards hatched in gilt, plain endleaves, yellow edges.

London: Albion Press Printed. Published by James Cundee, 1806

A fine copy in an unusually stained binding, similar to "cat's paw" but without a feline element. With an early anonymous armorial bookplate.

Stock no. ebc9007