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Publicado por Hutchinson and Co., London, 1901
Librería: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Cloth. First edition. xi, [1]-340 pp.; [iv], [341]-699 pp. Index. Illus. with b/w plates. 8vo. Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818), politician and pamphleteer, is believed by many to have been the author of the anonymous 'Junius' letters, which attacked, usually with bitter scorn and invective, the government and the political influence of George III. Some damp staining to boards and to the front matter but still a good solid set and otherwise tight and clean.
Publicado por London: G. Woodfell, 1814., 1814
Librería: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Used - Very Good. 1814. London: G. Woodfell, 1814. Tall paper copy. 588 pp.; 518 pp.; 509 pp. Six folding plates. Second (and best) edition. Nineteenth century polished calf, rebacked; spine decorated in gilt. Edgewor, but sound. All edges marbled; marbled endpapers.
Publicado por T. Bensley, London, 1799
Librería: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Two volumes, 8vo (212 x 125mm). 21 engraved portraits, vignettes in text. Contemporary full green straight-grained morocco gilt, all edges gilt (sympathetically rebacked to style, some rubbing to joints and extremities, light wear along fore-edges, mottling to leather). First complete Bensley illustrated edition.
Publicado por A. Hamilton, London, 1792
Librería: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: MWABA
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Leather. Condición: Good. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Two full leather volumes, spines in six compartments separated by gilt borders and decoration, gilt lettering on red labels in one compartment. Junius is the pseudonym of the still unidentified author of a series of letters contributed to Henry Sampson Woodfall's Public Advertiser, a popular English newspaper of the day, between January 21, 1769, and January 21, 1772. Junius' aims were to discredit the ministries of the Duke of Grafton and subsequently of Lord North and to draw attention to the political influence of George III, who was trying to establish his own "personal government" by selecting his ministers from a group of subservient friends. Junius used ferocious sarcasm in attacking the public and private lives of Grafton and his associates, the Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Bute, and Lord Mansfield. Finally, in his 35th letter, he attacked King George himself, causing a storm of indignation and prompting the government in 1770 to (unsuccessfully) prosecute the printer, Woodfall, for seditious libel for having printed the letter. Junius' views were those of a radical Whig and an ardent supporter of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, who had been succeeded in office by Grafton in 1768. But Junius failed in his aims, for the ineffectual Grafton's fall in 1770 merely signaled the advent of Lord North's ministry. Apart from their significance as a literary controversy and their importance in the history of the freedom of the press, Junius' letters are notable for their style and the unsolved mystery of their authorship. They display little stylistic variety, and their tone hardly ever changes from that of sustained personal invective and of bitter, merciless sarcasm, but the writing has a fine boldness and liveliness, an urgency and blunt eloquence that still arrest the reader. Many attempts to discover Junius' identity have been made, including claims for Sir Philip Francis, the chief candidate; William Petty-Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne); and Laughlin Macleane, who was Shelburne's undersecretary. Some 45 other candidates have been proposed less convincingly. Current opinion favors Sir Philip Francis. Expertly refurbished, former owner's name in an extremely elegent hand on each title page, library bookplates on each fep and a number written in the lower margin of the first text page of each volume (no other indications of library identification), corners bumped and worn, hinges strong, pages supple, both volumes appear unread. VERY GOOD. . Ex-Library. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xxxiv, 227; 259, (37) pp.