1837 Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq.

Description

Colour Plates, Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed Binding, With Slipcase

The preferred second edition of this work, with additions to the text, and with six extra hand-coloured plates and with three new plates replacing three from the first edition.

In the first state of the publisher's original cloth binding, bearing the date to the back strip tail. With sensitive archival restoration to back strip head and joint heads and tails, retaining the original endpapers.

The later variant of this second edition, with frontispiece engraved by E. Duncan (rather than Alken), and with 'filly' spelt 'filley' to plate 9. Tooley, 'English Books with Coloured Plates, 1790 to 1860', 67.

Housed in a custom morocco case by Hyman Zucker of Philadelphia, a noteworthy printer and binder whose skills were reputed as rivalling those of Parisian ateliers.

Illustrated with an engraved title page, and with eighteen hand-coloured aquatint plates, including a frontispiece, from H. Alken and T. J. Rawlins.

Collated, complete.

With eight pages of advertisements to the rear.

Known for his eccentric behaviour, this is a wonderful biography of the British Rake John Mytton, a notable figure in Regency era England, who was briefly a Conservative MP.