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Public characters

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. · 10 volumes : 22 cm (8vo) · First volume (preface dated Nov. 1798) published under title: British public characters of 1798; several following volumes have "To be continued annually" on title pages · Title pages have 8 lines of quotations from Shakespeare's Henry VIII and Horace's Satires (Latin) below title · Volumes 2- have engraved portraits sketches as frontispieces (volumes 2 and 3 by J. Owen) · Most of the contents of the first 9 vols. were contributed by Alexander Stephens. See Dict. nat. biog · No more published · Volumes 5 and 6 includes indexes · Volume 2 includes memoirs of: Earl of St. Vincent -- Sheridan -- Thomas Erskine -- Rev. Dr. Parr -- Dr. Charles Hutton -- Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury -- Isaac Milner -- Thomas Lewis O'Beirne, Bishop of Meath -- Rev. William Farish -- Sir Francis Bourgeois -- Duke of Richmond -- Mrs. Abington -- Mr. Saurin -- Dr. Samuel Arnold -- Lord Bridport -- Marquis of Lansdown -- Sir John Parnell -- Robert Southey -- Dr. Patrick Duigenan -- George Ponsonby -- Granville Sharp -- Thomas Pelham -- Duke of Grafton -- Mr.

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