The Life of Richard Lord Westbury, formerly Lord High Chancellor, Thomas Arthur Nash, 1888

2 Volume biography of Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury (1800-1873), British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain in 1861.

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The Life of Richard Lord Westbury, formerly Lord High Chancellor, with Selections from His Correspondence. By Thomas Arthur Nash, B.A., Barrister-at-Law. With Two portraits. In Two Volumes, complete.

Published by Richard Bentley and Son, London, 1888. First edition. An uncommon first edition set.

A good set of 2 dark teal cloth hardbacks with gilt armorials to front and gilt titles to spine. With a few bumps and indentations, and a few small marks. Soundly bound.

Frontispiece portraits, guards and facing title pages have substantial spotting and there is spotting to the edge of text blocks. A few pages at each end of the books also with some spotting. Otherwise text pages are bright and clean throughout, securely bound, and make a very readable set.

Text in English.

Vol I: ix + 308pp + Bound-in Errata slip at rear. Includes guarded portrait frontispiece at front;

Vol II: viii + 312pp. Includes guarded portrait frontispiece at front.

Weight: approximately 1.92kg (the set - unpacked). 

Dimensions:

Each volume approximately 228mm tall x 160mm wide x 37mm deep.