Sir John Hobhouse's copy.- Priestley (Joseph) Letters to a philosophical unbeliever, 2 parts, Birmingham, Pearson and Rollason, for J. Johnson, 1787.
Sir John Hobhouse's copy.- Priestley (Joseph) Letters to a philosophical unbeliever, 2 parts, second edition, part 2 lacking advertisement ff. at end, part 1 little staining to upper corners, both parts occasional spotting, 19th century black calf, spines in compartments and with double burgundy and red leather labels, rubbed, 8vo, Birmingham, Pearson and Rollason, for J. Johnson, 1787.
⁂ Sir John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (1786-1869) English politician, diarist and friend of Lord Byron. Broughton met Byron at Cambridge and they travelled together in Spain, Greece and Turkey in 1809. During a later period of travel by both Broughton wrote notes on the fourth canto of Childe Harold, which was thereafter dedicated to him (engraved armorial bookplates).
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Sir John Hobhouse's copy.- Priestley (Joseph) Letters to a philosophical unbeliever, 2 parts, second edition, part 2 lacking advertisement ff. at end, part 1 little staining to upper corners, both parts occasional spotting, 19th century black calf, spines in compartments and with double burgundy and red leather labels, rubbed, 8vo, Birmingham, Pearson and Rollason, for J. Johnson, 1787.
⁂ Sir John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (1786-1869) English politician, diarist and friend of Lord Byron. Broughton met Byron at Cambridge and they travelled together in Spain, Greece and Turkey in 1809. During a later period of travel by both Broughton wrote notes on the fourth canto of Childe Harold, which was thereafter dedicated to him (engraved armorial bookplates).