Item #54662 The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, with Selections from His Correspondence (3 volumes). Horace Twiss.

The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, with Selections from His Correspondence (3 volumes)

London: John Murray, 1844. Second edition. Leather bound. 514; 516; 614pp. Octavo [22 cm] Brown leather with 6 gilt stamped spine compartments. Gilt turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and text block edges. All plates are present. The extremities are rubbed. The front free endpaper of volume 1 is detached, but present, and the first four preliminary leaves of volume 3 are detached, but present. Ex libris Baron Aldenham (1818-1907), with his armorial bookplate, featuring three battle axes, on the front pastedowns. Henry Hucks Gibbs, the first Baron Aldenham, was a British banker and Conservative Party Politician. May require extra postage due to weight. Good. Item #54662

The conservative chief equity judge Lord Chancellor Eldon was an opponent of Roman Catholic political emancipation, the abolition of debtor's being imprisoned, and the abolition of the slave trade. One of his accomplishments was helping to develop the trademark law.

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