| Evidence: | Lord Webb Seymour to Mary Berry, 16 July 1809:
'I hope you will congratulate [John] Playfair for me and for yourself, upon his late publication -- "a Peerage" in five volumes, at ten guineas a volume. Lord Galloway [...] makes it a rule never to subscribe to any book, but an application some time ago from a person of the name of Playfair [...] induced him to relax his rule [...] At length the work appeared, and I found Lord Galloway grievously disappointed by the trifling stuff and fulsome flattery with which the production of this profound man abounded.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1809 and 16 Jul 1809 | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Lord Galloway |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | unknown |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | unknown |
| Country of experience: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | John Playfair |
| Title: | Peerage |
| Genre: | Heraldry, Reference / General works, Genealogy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 5 volumes |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 9151 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Lady Theresa Lewis | |
| Title: | Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry From the Year 1783 to 1852 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1865 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 386-87 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Lady Theresa Lewis (ed.), Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry From the Year 1783 to 1852 (London, 1865), 2, p. 386-87, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9151, accessed: 27 April 2024 | |
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