Lot RARE ANTIQUE OLD LEATHER BOOKS 1789 THE TATLER SPECTATOR GEORGE P WRAGGE

  

LOT OF 4 RARE ANTIQUE BOOKS. Printed by Rivington, Marshall, and Bye; for Messrs, Rivington, Davis, Buckland, Longman, Dodsley, White, C. Baldwin, Johnson, Nichols, Dilly, Robinson, Cadell, Sewell, Flexney, Richardson, R. Baldwin, Otridge, Hayes, Piguinet, Bent, Newbery, and Wilkie. THE TATLER, Volume the first.

Leather binding in POOR condition, no spine covering, no back cover, front cover is dettached. Pages are in three sections.

Title page has some yellowing, soiling. Pages overall are in very good clean condition with a little yellowing , some light spots.

THE SPECTATOR, Volume the first. Lot of pencil writing on blank page.

Title page has some edge tears, tear along crease where illustration printed. Some folded corners, yellowing, some spots here or there. Leather binding POOR, front and back covers dettached, spine covering poor /damaged. Hughes; for Messrs, Payne, Rivington, Davis Longman, Dodsley, White, Law , Robson, Crowder, H. Baldwin, Johnson, Nichols, Dilly, Robinson, Cadell, Stuart, Sewell, Murray, Flexney, R, Baldwin, Faulder, Goldsmith, Knox, Otridge, Hayes, Piguinet, McQueen, Newbery, Lowndes, Edwards, and Stalker. Leather binding POOR, spine worn, front and back covers dettached. Book plate for George Wragge. Small damp stain top corner of 20 pages or so in back. A few folded corners, a little yellowing, some spots here or there. Overall pages very good for the age. THE SPECTATOR, Volume the eighth. Leather binding POOR, no back cover. Front cover dettached, spine damaged/poor. Some spots on title page. Some yellowing, some spots here or there. Books could all use new bindings, Pages overall are in clean condition for the age.

Please look at photos to help determine condition. Books originally owned by George P. Who I believe is one of the original partners of Wragge & co. Started in 1834 as a two-partner firm in Birmingham, Wragge & Co LLP.

Is now a UK-headquartered international law firm. Providing a full range of legal services to UK and international clients.

And 500 lawyers advise on deals, projects and disputes from the firm's headquarters in Birmingham. Wragge & Co also has affiliated offices in Abu Dhabi. According to The Lawyer 200 in 2011. Twenty of its partners feature among Legal 500s. Leading individuals, while the firm is ranked for 41 different practice areas in Chambers UK 2012.

I received this information from a friendly ebayer hi, I thought you may be interested to know that the books were probably owned by George Wragge of Oakamoor Lodge, Staffordshire. George was a solicitor who married Emma Ingleby and had a son named George Paulson who eventually joined his Uncle and cousin Clement Mansfield Ingleby in Birmingham at the firm Ingelby, Wragge and Ingleby that eventually became Wragge and Sons. George Wragge went to Oakamoor to become manager of the Cheadle Copper and Brass Wire Company, This was a partnership with Thomas Patten and the Ingleby's and part of the Cheadle Brass business Empire. He became a shareholder and died in 1849 and buried at Oakamoor Church. George was the grandfather of Clement Lindley Wragge the famous meteorologist who was brought up by Emma Wragge in Oakamoor from 1853.

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