Mason, The Life of Richard Earl Howe, 1803, extra-illustrated

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.