The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of 1853, including all the Titled Classes

Author(s): Dod, Robert P

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Whittacker and Co
Publication Year:	1853
Publication Place:	Ave Maria Lane, London
Book ID:	002811
Catalogue(s):	History - British ◇ Culture and Society

678, 40pp (the latter section being period advertisements). Lightly illustrated. Purple cloth covered boards with elaborate gilt decorations and lettering (edge worn, faded, rubbed ad rounded on corners and spine joints, backstrip loosening from page block). Internally pages are neat, clean, bright and tight, barring front endpapers which have a some scuffing and a newspaper article regarding the bigamous marriage of the then Duke of Beaufort (who married two sisters, nieces of the Duke of Wellington). Good reference copy but no longer pretty.

Keywords:

classes honours aristocracy peerage bishops judges beaufort wellington bigamy