WATSON, John. Memoirs of the Ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey, and Their Descendants to the Present Time. Warrington: William Eyres, 1782. 2 vols., 4to (285 x 227mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, numerous engraved plates, some folding and double-paged. (Toning, occasional marginal damp-staining, stamps to margins.) Near contemporary full straight-grain morocco, g.e. (extremities rubbed, abrasions to base of spines). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (labels to pastedowns). – And a further six volumes, mostly related to Sussex genealogy (including ‘Stemmata Shirleiana; or the Annals of the Shirley Family’, 1873, 4to, and Gisborne Molineux’s ‘Memoir of the Molineux Family’, 1882, 4to, and ‘Genealogical History of the Family of Brabazon’, 1825, 4to, and C. Lewis Hind’s ‘Hercules Brabazon Brabazon 1821-1906’, 1912, 4to, and ‘The County of Sussex, and Many of Its Family Records’, limited edition of 100 copies only, 1898, 4to, and B.G. de Montgomery’s ‘Origin and History of the Montgomerys’, limited edition, this being ‘out-of-series’ of 600 copies only, 1948, 4to) (8).