Earl Percy Dines Abroad, a Boswellian Episode
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924. Limited Edition. Octavo. Item #015429
Limited to 550 copies.The present copy is number 290. 46pp. illustrated, The author published in 1907 a book entitled Earl Percy's Dinner-Table, an imaginary dinner given by his Lordship in Boston in 1775. The present work is an actual dinner given in London by General Paoli, the Corsican patriot and refugee, in honor of Earl Percy. The reader will note that this dinner was of peculiar interest to Mr. Boswell, who at the time was making his home with General Paoli in London.Bound in red cloth, paper spine label. A very nice copy with just a bit of bubbling to cloth.
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