Herries john charles (16 Ergebnisse)

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Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.

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Stipple engraving, from Ryall's Portraits of Eminent Conservative Statesmen.

1p, 4to. In good condition, lightly aged, with negligible remnants of windowpane mount adhering at edges of reverse (which has the catalogue entry for the item laid down on the reverse). Folded for postage. Reads: 'Sir / In reply to the letter which I have had the honor of receiving from you I beg leave to communicate to you my wish to be enrolled among the Members of the Club for promoting the Authors of Science Literature & the Arts / I have the honor to be / Sir / Your obedient / humble Servant / J C Herries'.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. London, 1804. From the collection of John Shy, Professor at University of Michigan. Marbled paper covered boards with leather spine and corners; edges and covers worn and rubbed; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; notation on front pastedown; names inked at top of title page; mild foxing, no internal markings; 397 pages.…

The first edition in English of this important rejoinder by the Austro-Prussian diplomat Friedrich von Gentz (1764-1832) to the manifesto De l'Ãtat de la France, Ã la Fin de l'An VIII (1800) commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte following his coup d'etat on the '18th Brumaire' (i.e. 9th November 1799). The translator John Charles Herries (1778-1855) would go on to enjoy a successful career in the Treasury and Parliament, eventually serving a brief stint as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the short-lived Goderich ministry of 1827-1828. First edition in English; 8vo (22.5 x 15 cm); slight dampstaining to head of textblock throughout; publisher's blue paper covered boards, carefully rebacked preserving the original paper label to spine, uncut edges, boards soiled; cxxiv, 391, [1]pp. …

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. The first English edition of Gentz"s influential defence of European order, condemning Revolutionary and Napoleonic expansion. In a contemporary half calf binding with marbled paper boards. The first English edition, translated from the German edition of 1801. Complete with a folding table. Collated, complete. An important anti-revolutionary political treatise written in response to Alexandre d"Hauterive"s officially sponsored L"Etat de la France à la fin de l"An VIII (1800). Gentz examines the European political system before and after the French Revolution, defending international law while condemning Revolutionary and Napoleonic expansion. Frederick von Gentz (1764-1832) was a Prussian-born diplomat and political writer who became a close adviser to Metternich and served as secretary to the Congress of Vienna. The translator, John Charles Herries (1778-1855), subsequently became a prominent British statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Rowland Hunt, Esq., Boreatton House, Salop. In a contemporary half calf binding with marbled paper boards.EXternally, soud. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, resulting in minor loss to calf and paper. Slight browning to perimeters of boards. Light rubbing to boards. Very slight lifting to upper spine label. Bookplate of Rowland Hunt to the front paste down. Minor discolouration from binder's glue to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd light spot, heavier to fore edge. Light cockling to leaves with slight creasing to first and final leaves. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Four red ruled 8vo account books, vellum wrap-around bindings, lettered in ink. v.g. A printed label at the beginning of each volume requests that 'Customers will have the goodness to send them a List of such Bills as are accepted payable at their House, from time to time, previously to their becoming due.' There are further requests to leave the book for the bank to agree with the ledgers monthly and annually, just before Christmas. With a starting balance of £802.1.7d and a closing balance in 1840 of £2,910.12.4d, the books for John Charles give a full account of financial transactions over some 18 years. Sir Robert's book is for five years, £10,162.4.6d to a concluding balance of £8,458.10.3d. John Charles Herries, 1778-1855, financier and Tory politician, briefly (5 months) Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister Goderich, 1827-28. He held other senior positions under Wellington, Peel and Derby. He had been Controller of Army Accounts during the Napoleonic Wars and described as 'unofficial business partner' of the banker, Nathan Rothschild. He was younger brother of Sir Robert Herries, founder, in 1770, of what was to become the Herries, Farquhar bank which specialised in foreign transactions - particularly supplying funds to British travellers abroad. Robert pioneered the idea of the Travellers' Cheque and, at one time, was the sole supplier of tobacco to the French Farmers General.…

Lord Hennessy has characterised the subject of these items, the Northcote-Trevelyan Report of 1854, as 'the greatest single governing gift of the nineteenth to the twentieth century: a politically disinterested and permanent Civil Service with core values of integrity, propriety, objectivity and appointment on merit, able to transfer its loyalty and expertise from one elected government to the next'. According to Northcote's entry in the Oxford DNB, 'the Northcote-Trevelyan Report (with an approving appendix by Benjamin Jowett), dated 23 November 1853 and published in the parliamentary papers in 1854 (Parl. papers, 1854, 27), is one of the most famous and typical of mid-Victorian reforms, recommending the widespread use of the examination system and recruitment on merit in place of patronage and 'old corruption''. The article describes the background as follows: 'In conjunction with Sir Charles Trevelyan [(1807-1886)], Northcote was invited to serve on eight commissions inquiring into various aspects of civil service department reform. One of these was on the Treasury. By a Treasury minute of 12 April 1853 Northcote and Trevelyan were instructed to draw up a general report on the civil service with especial reference to its means of selection and promotion. The NorthcoteTrevelyan report (with an approving appendix by Benjamin Jowett), dated 23 November 1853 and published in the parliamentary papers in 1854 (Parl. papers, 1854, 27), is one of the most famous and typical of mid-Victorian reforms, recommending the widespread use of the examination system and recruitment on merit in place of patronage and 'old corruption'. These proposals anticipated the movement for administrative reform which was so striking a consequence of the Crimean War and affected the rising importance of the middle classes and the 'career open to talent'.' The six items, of which only the last appears to have been published (no references to the first five having been discovered), are from the papers of Sir Charles John Herries (1815-1883), at the time deputy chair of the Board of Inland Revenue, and provide an extraordinary insight into the heated debate which the Report's proposals generated, with the correspondence between Herries and Northcote unusually intemperate. They comprise: ONE, a spirited and intemperate twenty-six-page defence of the civil service by Herries, in a private letter to Sir Stafford Northcote (1818-1887); TWO, Northcote's blunt reply, in which he accuses Herries of having been carried beyond 'the bounds of reason'; THREE, Herries' final bitter rejoinder; FOUR, a letter of support to Herries from Frederick Goulburn (d.1878) of the Board of Customs (appointed because his father was the politician Henry Goulburn), describing Herries' first letter as 'a stinger'; and FIVE and SIX, two printed papers by George Arbuthnot (1802-1865). No copies of Five and Six have been traced, either on OCLC WorldCat, COPAC, or at the LSE; and although the second of them was published at the time, there is no indication that the other 'Private' paper, although printed at the Foreign Office, was ever published, nor has any reference to it been discovered. The six items are in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. A full description follows. ONE: Retained copy, in manuscript, of long letter from Herries to Northcote, docketed by Herries: '1854 | Correspondence with Sir S. Northcote on admission to the Civil Service by open competition'. 26pp., 8vo. On seven bifoliums attached with green ribbon. Addressed from 114 Piccadilly, 15 April 1854. Headed 'Copy'. The start of the letter gives the background: 'Dear Northcote | I was much gratified by your statement to me some time ago that you intended publickly to apologize for the imputations upon the existing body of civil servants which are contained in your Report Since that time I have been anxiously looking for some communication from you on this subject, and have been annoyed at the delay of an act of justice to a large class of persons who are, by the conditions of their employment, unable to give publicity to their defence. [] But to say the truth I can well understand that there may be some difficulty in cancelling the portion of your report which contains these imputations. They are, as it seems to me, essential to your case. For I can scarcely conceive that without a certainty that the present system is necessarily and in its very nature productive of great evil to the public service, any one would propose to substitute such a plan as yours, involving as it does an abandonment of the principles on which all Government has hitherto been conducted, and leading almost inevitably to changes in the constitution of the country which, be they good or bad, are at least entirely inconsistent with that constitution which at present exists.' A vigorous defence follows, Herries concluding: 'I deny the truth of every one of the assertions to our discredit. [] I do not retract one iota of my statements, nor will I abate the vehemence of my denial of the justice of yours. | Yours truly | (signed) C. J. Herries'. TWO: Autograph Letter Signed from 'Stafford H. Northcote' to Herries. From Pynes, Exeter, 19 April 1854. 4pp., 4to. Bifolium. He begins his reply to Item One: 'I own that I read the greater part of your letter of the 15th. (which has been forwarded to me here) with a good deal of surprise, until I came to the passage near the end in which you candidly say that "it has been written without referring to the publications on which it comments", which undoubtedly affords some account of the strange misconceptions which you entertain of our much abused report.' In the course of a robust defence he makes the stinging retort: 'I am not in the least annoyed at the warmth of your indignation, nor surprised to find that it has carried you so far beyond what I think the bounds of reason.' He points out that he mentioned to him 'that Arbuthnot was writing a letter to the Treas.…