Historical memoirs of celebrated English personalities

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Historical and critical memoirs on the most celebrated living personalities of England. Work containing the most extensive details on the present state of this kingdom, regarding literature, politics, sciences and the arts. Paris, printed by A. Egron, at Duprat, Letellier, and company, 1803, 366 pages, translated from English on the 3rd edition, full leather binding, red edges, worn borders. Volume II featuring: Sir Ralph Abercrombie, the Earl of Stanhope, Dr. William Mavor, Dr. John Gillies, Hugh Blair, Mrs. Robinson, Joseph Banks, Lord Grenville, Henry Addington (Chancellor of the Exchequer), George-John Earl of Spencer, Viscount Althorpe, Viscount and Baron of Spencer, Lord Viscount Hode (Admiral), Lord Hobart, William Herschel, Miss Hannah More, Charlotte Smith, Colonel Edward Marc Despard, Sir Benjamin Thompson Count of Rumford, M. Windham, Arthur Young, John Horne Tooke, Cowper, William Franklin (former Governor of New Jersey), General Hutchinson.