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1857 · 008021 — Richard Bentley 1857. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. London: Richard Bentley. 1857. First edition. xlviii 407 pages."Major Stone kept the letters until his death about 1850. They then passed to his nephew Augustus F. Boyse a barrister of the Inner Temple who sold them to a fellow barrister Edmund G. Hornby. Hornby arranged for their publication by Richard Bentley; he had originally intended to do the editing himself but the demands of his profession made this impossible and the task was undertaken anonymously by Philip Francis. The book appeared just before Christmas 1856 and was vey well received but Hornby's plans for a second edition never came to fruition." David Buchanan: The Treasure of Auchinleck. Embossed bown cloth. Some stains to front pastedown interior clean binding tight. Cover shows usual wear good overall. <br/> <br/> Richard Bentley hardcover