Sir Robert Peel's Copy

The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854-55.

Price: $400.00


About the item

First edition. Engraved titles, 46 plates and illustrations in the text by Richard Doyle. Some browning and offsetting of plates, no half titles. 1 vols. 8vo. Sir Robert Peel's Copy. Two volumes bound in one. Nineteenth century brown morocco gilt, a.e.g. Short crack along upper joint, some rubbing. some light soiling of endpapers, else a very good copy with the signature of Thos. C. Allin and bookplates of The Right Honble Sir Robert Peel Bart. and Phyllis Robbins. NCBEL 3:858; Wolff 6696a.

Item #24580

With the bookplate of the statesman Sir Robert Peel, third Baronet (1822-1895).