THE PERCY ANECDOTES Original and Select. Volume XIII Hospitality - Conviviality.
London: J. Cumberland, 1826. Cloth. 1826, London. Volume XIII only. A Good copy. 16mo., 178 pp., plus index at rear, frontis lacking tissue guard, bound in green cloth with title on spine in gilt. Tips, edges and top/base of spine are rubbed. Gilt on spine is dulled with spine cloth tanned. Water stain to first few pages including title page with some light foxing. Previous owners bookplate and signature inside front cover, otherwise text appears to be unmarked. Good. Item #37109
Joseph Clinton Robertson (c.1787–1852), pseudonym Sholto Percy, was a Scottish patent agent, writer and periodical editor. He was a political radical prominent in the early days of the working-class press in London, and in the debates within the Mechanics Institute movement.
Thomas Byerley (1789–1826), also known by the pseudonyms of Reuben Percy and Stephen Collet, was an English journalist and compiler of the Percy Anecdotes.
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