Published by Payne and Foss Longman a.o. London New edition. 8vo, 1821
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
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Add to basketpp. xxx, (ii), 104. Half title discarded. Contemporary calf, a little rubbing and snags to the boards, internally clean and tight.
Published by T. Payne by T. Bensley, London, 1804
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavo; xxix, 104 pages, contemporary covers rebacked with plain, black leather; some waterstains to bottom margins, primarily to the endsheets; some light pencilled glossing. With half-title, no frontispiece portrait. pi This is a Large-Paper edition. This is a Presentation Copy from William Pitt's great friend, William Wyndham Grenville, a.k.a. Lord Grenville, who edited this work, arranged to get this collection printed, and whose Dedication appears before his Editor's Preface. Lord Grenville presented this copy to G. Lincoln on the title-page. The lengthy inked message on the facing page explains that the recipient was to Dr. G. Prettyman, Bishop of Lincoln. Grenville's Dedication explains that herein Lord Chatham teaches "how great talents may most successfully be cultivated, and to what objects they may most honourably be directed." Both Pitt and Pitt's son - and Grenville himself became Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom. Grenville later served as Chancellor of Oxford University.