Substance Of The Speech Of ... Lord Sheffield ... Upon The Subject Of Union With Ireland by John Baker Holroyd (1st earl of Sheffiel (Creator) - 2011-09-13

Ryburn, Keele University Press, 1994. Very Good. Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life and Writings. Cockshut, A. O. J; Constantine, Stephen; Sheffield, John Baker Holroyd. Keele: Ryburn, Keele University Press, 1994. 486pp. Indexed. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with rubbed extremities.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: A. Strahan, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1796. First edition. Leather. Good Only. 11" by 9". None. The first edition of Lord Sheffield's account of the life and works of this eighteenth-century English historian. 'Illustrated from his Letters, with Occasional Notes and Narrative, by John Lord Sheffield'. Volume two of the original two. Rebound in a half calf binding with marbled boards. Externally, rubbed with wear to extremities and slight loss to the spine. Spine label is absent and there is cracking to both joints. Internally, firmly bound and bright. Instances of spotting with the odd handling mark. Private library bookplate to the front pastedown. Good Only

Paris: La Veure Estienne, 1742. Full calf. Fair. In French. Full calf. Raised bands. XLVIII, 548pp. Binder's copy. Boards detached, and binding is split at pp. 218/219. Edges scuffed. Mild soiling to endpapers. Armorial bookplate of John Lord Sheffield, Sheffield Place, Sussex pasted inside front cover. Interior very clean. This is a book of Roman history which belonged to John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield (1735-1821). Sheffield was a notable English and Irish politician, perhaps best remembered in the literary world as a friend and editor of Edward Gibbon, the English historian whose Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire remains the definitive text on the subject. Among other contributions, Sheffield compiled Gibbon's letters and diaries after Gibbon's passing into Memoirs of My Life and Writings, one of the first examples of a modern autobiography. Sheffield contributed enormously to 18th century scholarship on the Roman Empire, making this research volume of Rollin and Crevier from his… Read More

London : Printed for J. Debrett, 1791. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Finely bound in modern cloth, gilt-blocked title to spine. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 83 pp., 22 cm. Subjects; Adams, John 1735-1826. Corn laws (Great Britain). Agriculture United States History. British colonies. Commerce. Law and legislation. Politics and government.

Cambridge University Press, 2014. Paperback. New. 736 pages. 11.70x8.30x1.60 inches.

Cambridge University Press, 2014. Paperback. New. 740 pages. 11.70x8.10x1.70 inches.

London: Printed for J. Hatchard, 1818. First edition, 8vo, iv, [3]-60 pp., stitched as issued, uncut and unopened, small stain on inner blank margin of title, a nice copy. In this work the author strongly condemns the present management of the poor as a disgrace to the policy and political economy of the poor. He alleged that the heavy burden of the poor rate had so ruined small tradesmen as to have added to, rather than reduced the existing number of paupers. He advocated the abandonment of the whole system; the separation and classification of paupers, the education of pauper children, and their separation from criminal parents. He suggested the application of the unemployed to agricultural work. Holroyd, an intimate friend of Gibbon, wrote numerous pamphlets on economic subjects, including commerce, manufacturers, slavery and the Corn Laws. His estate at Sheffield Place, in Sussex, was regarded as a model of farming. Kress, C170; Goldsmith, 22206; Einaudi, 2916; Black, 3097.