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A Proof of Eminence: The Life of Sir John Hawkins
by Davis, Bertram H
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears, chips and small holes. Ink mark and small scuff/
- ISBN 10
- 0253346177
- ISBN 13
- 9780253346179
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About This Item
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1973. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears, chips and small holes. Ink mark and small scuff/loss of material on fep.. xii, 436 p. Abbreviations. Endpaper map. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Thorny, high-principled, and utterly uncompromising, Sir John Hawkins had a personality to inspire respect from his contemporaries but scarcely one to win their affection. Hawkins served for a long period as chairman of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, a position for which he was chosen, and later knighted, because of his training in law. In this office he heard and passed judgment on a wide variety of cases and established himself as a magistrate of uncompromisiong integrity. However, the works for which Hawkins will be remembered are three: an edition of Walton's Compleat Angler which rescued the book from obscurity; a History of Music, a monumental five-volume work and the first of its type, and his Life of Johnson, which provides and indespensible and authoritative record of one of England's greatest men.
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- Title
- A Proof of Eminence: The Life of Sir John Hawkins
- Author
- Davis, Bertram H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears, chips and small holes. Ink mark and small scuff/
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed first edition/first printing
- ISBN 10
- 0253346177
- ISBN 13
- 9780253346179
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Place of Publication
- Bloomington, IN
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Edward Cave, William Bewley, John Brettell, James Boswell, Charles Burney, John Fielding, George Handel, Hicks Hall, James Jefferson, Samuel Johnson, John Nicols, George Steevens, Horace Walpole, Twickenham
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