Family Copy in a Choice American Binding
Memoirs of John Horne Tooke … also Proofs Identifying him as the Author of the celebrated Letters of Junius.
New York: Printed by A. Gould & L. Jacobus, Essex-street, for Stephen Gould, 39, Nassau-Street, 1828.
Price: $500.00
About the item
First edition. Frontispiece portrait of the author, portrait of Tooke, folding facsimile of handwriting samples. viii, [9]-242 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Family Copy in a Choice American Binding. Contemporary brown morocco gilt, a.e.g. Rubbed but sound, some foxing to first and last binder’s leaves. With inserted proof of letter from Lord Lyndhurst to the author and original holograph cover sheet bound in, signature of “John H. Graham, U.S. Navy” on title page. American Imprints 33399.
Item #252142
Elegant American presentation binding on this family copy of Graham’s contribution to the never-ending question of the identity of the English political commentator Junius.
Signed by the author’s son John H. Graham, officer in the U.S. Navy, on the title page.
