ASSOCIATION COPY

Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet, with Selections from his Correspondence …

London, [Spottiswoode & Shaw for] John Murray, 1848.

8vo, pp. [2 (blank)], [iii]-xvi, 690, 14 (advertisements), [2 (ads)], with stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait; light offsetting; a very good copy, uncut in publisher’s brown cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; spine lightly sunned, endcaps frayed, corners very slightly bumped; contemporary ink ownership inscription ‘Charles Barclay / Bury Hill’ (see below) to preliminary blank.

£185

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First edition of this memoir of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, edited by his son, and owned by Buxton’s cousin-in-law and contemporary in Parliament, Charles Barclay.

Although a political opponent, Charles Barclay (1780–1855) of Bury Hill was a contemporary of Buxton in the House of Commons, serving as Member for Southwark (1815-1818), Dundalk (1826-1830), and West Surrey (1835-1837). Buxton was closely associated with the interlinked Barclay and Gurney brewing and banking dynasties of Norwich both in his political activities – it was through their Quaker set that he became involved with the abolitionist and reform movements – and in his private life, marrying Hannah Gurney, Charles Barclay’s first cousin, in 1807.

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