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Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. An exceptional example of the scarce first edition of the letters written by William Pitt to his intended, Eleanor Eden. With an account of Pitt's health from his physician. The scarce first edition of this privately printed work.This volume presents the letters detailing the unfulfilled love story between Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and Eleanor Eden. They were rumoured to have been engaged, but he disavowed the connection and never married, possibly due to his dedication to his political career and poor health.This volume includes an account of Pitt's health from his physician, Sir Walter Farquhar.With the bookplate of the Arma Comitis de Bradford's Weston Library to the front pastedown, and with an inscription from the Bradford family, dated 1909, to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, exceptional. Bookplate and inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Near Fine. None (illustrator). book.…