Grenville lord (13 Ergebnisse)

Disbound. Zustand: Good. 32pp. Pamphlet. No cover but pages still well bound together. Interior in nice clean condition.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Gut. 270 p. Der Einband ist leicht bestoßen. Der Vor- und Nachsatz weisen leichte Bereibungen und tlw.Papierschaden auf. Sonst aber ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ The binding is slightly bumped. The preliminaries and postscript show slight rubbing and partial paper damage. Otherwise a good and clean copy. - Fulke Greville was the courtier, statesman, and political theorist who, like? Sidney and Dyer, began to write in the 1580s and whose Workes (1633) were published posthumously in the same year as Donnes. Two important verse treatises excluded from that collection were issued as The Remains (1670). A Treatise of Religion had been suppressed in 1633, its omission accounting for the twenty-two missing pages in the Workes. There had apparently been no plan to include A Treatise of Monarchy; even in 1681 it was to strike Richard Baxter as presenting doctrines 'which I greatly wonder this Age would bear. These Treatises have been available only in Southeys British Poets (1831) and in Grosarts Fuller Worthies Library (1870), both deriving from the inaccurate 1670 edition. The present text is the first to be based on the Warwick MSS. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

Disbound. Zustand: Good. Second Edition, Corrected. 12 + 87pp. No cover but pages still well bound together. Pamphlet disbound from a compilation is in good unfolded condition and in nice clean condition.

Statesman and writer (1788-1850). 3pp., 8vo. He has heard that his name has been used in the prospectus for the Gwennap mining company. He explains that he was approached but decided not to allow his name to be used or to buy any shares in it. He hopes the Lord Mayor will take any opportunity of saying this.…

Half-Leather. Zustand: Fair. 70; 46; 31; 175; 45; 16 p. 22 cm. Half leather with marbled boards. Burnt spine, front board loose, title written on spine, corners bumped. Contents written in ink on front pastedown. Pencil notations and dampstains front endpapers. Page 151 of item 4 has large tear in top and stain on its last page. Author of speech written in ink on 5th title page. Worm holes in rear endpapers. Contents: 1. Substance of Mr. Canning's Speech, in the House of Commons, Tuesday, December 11, 1798, on Mr. Tierney's Motion, Respecting Continental Alliances. 2. A Letter to the Marquis of Buckingham. on . Emigrant French Priests.Resident and Maintained in England at the Public Expence. 3. The Speech of The Right Honourable Lord Grenville, in the House of Commons, 16th Jan. 1789, on the Proposed Regency Bill. 4. Letters on the Subject of The Catholics, to My Brother Abraham who Lives in the Country. 5. Letter to Lord Holland on Foreign Politics. 6. Substance of the Speech of Viscount Normanby, in the Debate on the Catholic Petitions in the House of Commons, on Monday, the Third of May, 1819 on the Motion of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. London: Bemrose and Sons, 1871. 9 pp. 16.5 x 22 cm. Green cloth covered boards with decorative stamping in blind and gilt titling to cover; illustrated with nine plates and one folded plate as frontispiece. Rubbing to spine ends with a 14 x 5 mm chip to tail of spine edge of front cover. Starting to front joint at both head and tail, but it appears that the tail split has been repaired with glue. Light bumping and light wear to corners of boards. Splitting along both front and rear hinges. Dampstaining along tail of front and rear endpapers, but not to text or plates. Some foxing to initial and final pages. All plates intact with two of them still possessing their tissue guards. Overall a fairly decent copy of a scarce telling of the story of the Dole of Tichborne, which has been illustrated by the half-cousin of Charles Darwin. . Hard Cover. Good.…

Leather bound. Zustand: Very good. Private Publication. Quarto, [6], 89pp. Marbled boards with red morocco spine and corners, title stamped in gilt on spine. Leather rubbed along spine and corners, scuff mark near lower left corner of back cover. Some foxing, mainly endpapers and flyleaves, untrimmed pages, small closed tear along fore edge of pages 53/54. Inscription on front flyleaf: "The Lord Bishop of Oxford, from GM Fortescue, Dropmore, Aug. 18, 1866." (Lowndes II, 942) A nice example of this scarce publication, with approximately 50 copies being printed and bought up primarily by family. The author of this work, Lord William W. Grenville (1759-1834), was a member of the House of Lords and Prime Minister of England from 1806-1807. His most notable accomplishment during his ministry was the passing of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which resulted in the abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Lord Grenville's home was Dropmore, which was built in the 1790s, and with his death in 1834, Lady Grenville continued to live at the estate until her death in 1864. Having no children, the home passed into the hands of her nephew, George M. Fortescue (1791-1877). In 1866, Fortescue presented Bishop Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873) with this copy of his uncle's book of poetry, Nugae Metricae. Bishop Wilberforce was the third son of William Wilberforce, who played a prominent role in the movement to abolish the slave trade in the early nineteenth century. Bishop Wilberforce was involved in the 1860 Oxford debate on evolution, in which he opposed Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Presentation copy of Nugae Metricae by Lord W.W. Grenville, inscribed to Bishop Samuel Wilberforce from George M. Fortescue, nephew of the author. (illustrator). Signed. …

British statesman, several times Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (DNB). Intimate and interesting communication beginning 'I have only time to say in answer to your obliging note, that I shall be most happy to take you by the hand as soon as is convenient to you, as I trust in God that my poor wife after a most severe fever is this day beginning to recover. As to Dr 's business I can say distinctly, that I know you to have been most scandalously & I fear wickedly used by that very wicked man his elder brother' and ending with postscript 'If you see Bernard pray let him know that I shall be glad to see him.' (Perhaps Sir Thomas Bernard (DNB)).…

Disbound. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. First edition. An uncommon pamphlet regarding a political speech given by Lord Grenville in the House of Lords on the 13th November 1801. The first and only edition of this work.Disbound.This speech, given by Lord Grenville, speaks out against the St Petersburg Convention.Despite his disagreement,Grenville worked hard to hold allied coalitions and worked on a complex alliance between Russia and Austria. The treaty Grenville refers to was signed in St Petersburg on the 17th June in 1801 and is the agreement on the principles of free navigation for neutral states and freedom of trade. Grenville disagreed with this because of the adverse effects it could have on Britain. Grenville wished to 'confirm and strengthen the dispositions of friendship, between those to whom Europe still looks for its preservation, and may stifle the seeds of every possibleTo the rear is the treaties Grenville refers to in his speech. Disbound. Externally, very smart with a few light spots to the front and rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Light tidemark to the head of pages 116-122 affecting the margin only. Otherwise, just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…

9pp., folio. On five leaves of aged and worn paper. Heavily reworked, with numerous deletions and additions. Headed 'The Confessions of A [amended from 'The'] Suspicious Gentleman. | by Lord Nugent'. The present short story was first published in 'The Musical Bijou' for 1830, and was reprinted in 'The Polar Star' (abridged) and 'New York Mirror', before being collected in an anthology by Nugent and his Wife, 'Legends of the Library at Lilies, by the Lord and Lady there' (London: Longman, 1832), pp.51-91. The present text ends abruptly at the end of the ninth page, and corresponds with the first fourteen pages (pp.51-64) of the 1832 text. None of the numerous deletions (including passages of eight and five lines) feature in the printed text. Nugent's writing was well-regarded, and his 1831 biography of John Hampden was praised by the historian Thomas Babington Macaulay.…

1p, foolscap 8vo. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to an edge. Folded once. At bottom right are Grenville's signature ('W: W: Grenville') and a good impression of his seal in red wax. Twenty-line document, written in a secretarial hand, with two embossed tax stamps at head. Begins: 'Know all Men by these Presents that I the Right Honourable William Wyndham Grenville Paymaster General of His Majesty's Forces as well within Great Britain and without except the Kingdom of Ireland have authorized and appointed and by these Presents do authorize and appoint Isaac Phipps of Kensington in the County of Middlesex Esquire for me and in my name and stead to pay the Subsistence of His Majesty's Forces employed or to be employed in the West Indies also the Pay of the General and Staff Officers of the Hospital and Monies allowed for the Contingent Expences and all other Services relative to such Forces []'. At bottom left, by two members of the Army Pay Office: 'Sealed and delivered (being first duly Stampt) in the presence of | Saml: Estwick | Rd Molesworth'. Endorsed three times on reverse of leaf: 'Entered in the Office of the Right Honble John Lord Viscount Mountstuart Auditor the 12th. Feby 1784 | Phil Deare'; 'Entered in the Office of the Rt Hble Lewis Lord Sondes Aud[itor] the 17th February 1784. | Jn. Wigglesworth Depy. Audr.' | Enter'd in the Office of the Paymr. Genl. 2D Augt. 1784 | [Jn.?] Sables'. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.…

An interesting intimate letter from the Duke of York, credited with having done more to reform the British Army than any other man, to the future Prime Minister Grenville, who at the time was Paymaster General of the Forces. Of particular note is the Duke's desire to go to war, 'for I am sure we never have had for these two Centuries so favourable an opportunity of humbling France'. 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, aged and worn, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to reverse of second leaf. Folded three times. Sixty-one lines of text. After explaining that he delayed writing in order that his letter arrive after that of General Bude, he states that he has been at Allerton for a week and likes the place 'exceedingly. Indeed it in every respect surpasses my expectations it is a sweet spot and [?] in a beautiful Country, the House is good though not large, and with very trifling Alterations, will become very Comfortable, I have the advantage of having a very good neighbourhood'. The previous day 'five Companies of the Welsh [sic] fusiliers passed through here upon their March to Chatham Barracks. I desired them to halt and gave a breakfast to both Officers and Men, and had the Officers afterwards to dinner.' He assesses the division, commending the commanding officer as 'a very sensible steady Officer', and finding the officers a 'very young and really a wonderfull [sic] good body'. The second division are to pass through on the following day, 'and I intend to ask them likewise'. He continues: 'You can not expect news from me here, who am above two hundred miles from the Capital I trust and hope however still that we shall have war, for I am sure we never have had for these two Centuries so favourable an opportunity of humbling France'. He is concerned that it is 'quite an Age' since he heard from Grenville, and begins to be afraid that he has 'not yet recovered Your Sea Expedition'. (The Oxford DNB states that Grenville 'went to The Hague and to Paris in 1787 to advise the cabinet on a conflict in the United Provinces between the Orange and patriot parties which threatened the European equilibrium'.) He discusses a house in Whitehall he is thinking of buying, 'which will suit me in every respect, it is belonging to Sir Harry Featherstone [i.e. Sir Henry Fetherstonhaugh (1754-1846], and is at present occupied by Lord Amherst'. He has had 'Lake' contact 'Sir Harry' about it, and considers it would suit his purposes, 'being in a manner upon the parade, and so near to St James's, Queen's House, Carlton House &c secondly its size having a Sufficient number of apartments to see Company'. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.…

'as soon as I received your letter, I sent to Mr Pitts secretary the name of the person whom you recommended with my request that he might be instructed for the excise; & having immediately left London the subject escaped my memory while I was at Gosfield for near a month.', delay not of his making, note mislaid in Pitt's office, 'Be so good then as to let me know the name, the age & the present place of abode of your protege, & if he is within the rules I have no doubt of his appointment'. removed from album, A letter showing how a politician with influence could use his patronage to find positions for his friends' proteges. Marquess Buckingham twice became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was one of the first to advocate Catholic emancipation, and raised a militia regiment to help in its defence against the French. Gosfield was one his estates in Essex. …