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Description Mason, George
The Life of Richard Earl Howe. London: C. Roworth for John White and others, 1803
Folio (430 x 288mm.), extra-illustrated and extended to folio format, with the addition of mezzotint and engraved portraits (including a?mezzotint portrait of Earl Howe after J.S. Copley and small watercolour of Lady Howe), contemporary straight-grained red morocco gilt, binding rubbed and scratched
PROVENANCE:
Presumably Louisa Catherine, Marchioness of Sligo (1767-1817), Westport House, engraved armorial bookplate; by descent to Jasper More, engraved armorial bookplate
Louisa Catherine was the daughter of Sir Richard Howe, 1st and last Earl Howe (1726-1799), victor of the Glorious First of June.
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