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Published by Published by Book Club Associates, London . 2004., 2004
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains (xxv), 652 pp with 24 colour plates throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused book. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).
Published by HardPress Publishing
ISBN 10: 0461945118ISBN 13: 9780461945119
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1974
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Introduction by A. J. P. Taylor. Pp. 224, coloured frontispiece portrait, numerous black & white illustrations (some full or double page), pictorial endpapers printed in red, genealogical tree, bibliography, index; narrow cr. 4to; maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed; text block slightly browned, book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1974. First edition. British Prime Ministers series.
Publication Date: 1860
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
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No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Posselwhite (illustrator). A fine original engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame, circa 1860 A splended opportunity to purchase an original antique engraving.
Publication Date: 1850
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
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No Binding. Condition: Very Gppood. A splendid original engraved portrait. Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Excellent condition. Circa 1850 - fine portrait of William Pitt.
Harlow, 2000. 247 pp. Softcover.
Published by Published by Harper Collins 77-85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London First Edition . 2004., 2004
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition Signed
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, archive printed end sheets. Thick 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Printer's code number 1 to the copyright page. Contains (xxv)-blank, 652 pp with mostly colour archive illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, £25.00. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'William Hague.' Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS.
Published by London: 1800., printed for J. Wright,, 1800
Seller: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., Westville, FL, U.S.A.
Disbound. 2nd edition. address to the throne, approving of the answers returned to the communications from France relative to a negociation for peace. [3], 120 p.; 20.5 cm. G, removed. Lightly toned. With half-title.
Published by Printed by M'Millan,. Sold by G. and W. Nicol, &c. 1803, 1803
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Disbound. 29pp. Outlining Pitts' arguments for engaging in war with France.
Published by Printed for J. Wright. 1800, 1800
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Without half title or ad. leaves. Disbound. (2), 120pp. ESTC N25050. William Pitt the Younger, 1759-1806, is the youngest ever Prime Minister of Great Britain, first assuming office when only 24. He served in the role twice, from 1783-1801, and 1804-1806, dying in office at the age of 46.
Published by Printed by T. Davison,. and sold by J. Asperne.; J. Hatchard;. 1803, 1803
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Disbound. 16pp. Not in BL. Birmingham and Cambridge only on Copac. Dedicated to 'the Yeomanry of Old England'. The final three pages contain An Epitaph on the later illustrious Earl of Chatham, text printed in two columns.
Published by Printed for Cobbett and Morgan. 1801, 1801
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Ad. on verso of final leaf. Disbound. xvi, (17)-71, (1)pp. BL, Cambridge, Senate House, NT only on Copac. Back cover ad. is for Porcupine's Works in 12 volumes. When Cobbett returned to Britain from the USA in 1800, fleeing an $8,000 judgement against him, he set up in publishing with John Morgan - a friend from Philadelphia - and named his second son John Morgan Cobbett. The partnership, publishing material supportive of the King & the Church, lasted until December 1802 when Morgan returned home and the business was sold.
Published by A Paris de l'Imprimerie Nationale Exécutive du Louvre, 1793
Seller: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
4to (266 x 204mm), pp. 2; plus original blank conjunct leaf; unbound and uncut. 'No. 1342' at upper right hand corner. A decree from the Convention Nationale, which in September 1792 had succeeded the Assemblée Législative and which lasted until October 1795, declaring 'Williams Pitt, ministre du gouvernement Britannique', an enemy of the human race. A pretty pointless exercise, one would have thought, whose futility is underlined by the convention's inability to spell his name correctly.
Published by Printed for J. Hatchard. 1806, 1806
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Without half title, sl. spotted. Disbound. (3)-24pp. Three copies on Copac: BL, Manchester, Birmingham.
Published by 'Given at Our Court at Saint James's this First day of May in the Twenty Seventh Year of Our Reign.', 1787
Manuscript / Paper Collectible Signed
Folio, 2 pp. On first leaf of bifolium, with the verso of the second leaf docketed, under the heading 'King's Warrant'. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. Headed '(Copy)', and with 'George R' in a bold hand in the top left-hand corner. Although the signature is almost certainly not in the hand of the king, the document is docketed in pencil: 'Signature of his late beloved Majesty King George III on Copy of a Warrant retained by General Saml. Townsend'. Begins (in another hand): 'Whereas We are given to understand that our Trusty and Well beloved Major General Samuel Townsend Inspector General of the Recruiting Service is set insuper in the Account of Our Right Trusty and Well beloved Counseller Richard Rigby late Paymaster General of Our Forces for the Sum of Seventeen Thousand Four Hundred Sixty Four Pounds Fourteen Shillings and Eight Pence being Money Imprested to him for carrying on the above Service from the end of the year 1778, to the 24th. day of June 1786 [.]'. The document records that the original was signed by Pitt, Eliot and Aubrey, as 'Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts', 'the Commissioners having recommended unto Us to discharge Major General Samuel Townsend from rendering any further Account of the same'.
Published by Edward Orme. January 25, 1806, 1806
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Single sheet folio broadside, oval engr. port., letterpress text within black mourning border; short tear neatly repaired at right margin. Approx. 43 x 27cm. Framed & glazed. The BM records two examples. The first (BM 1929,0416.14) is almost identical to our copy but with the correct spelling of Independent in the title. The second (BM 1917,1208.3477) includes two additional engravings to either side of the portrait. The imprint in both issues in the BM are slightly shorter in length that the present example which extends almost to the edges of the mourning border. Presumably this was an early issue, with the spelling swiftly corrected. Neither Copac or OCLC record any copies of this variant. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT.
Published by (H. Edridge & Colnaghi.) 1804, 1804
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Uncoloured engraving; trimmed with loss of imprint, mounted within a larger sheet of card, 57 x 50cm. BM 1890,0415.135. Engraved by Anthony Cardon after Henry Edridge. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT.
Published by Rambler Press, 2018
Seller: Regency Books, Warszawa, MAZ, Poland
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Limited Edition. Overtures of Peace with France William Pitt the Younger William Pitt the Younger (28 May 1759 23 January 1806) was a British statesman, the youngest and last prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800 and then first prime minister of the United Kingdom from January 1801. He left office in March 1801, but served as prime minister again from 1804 until his death in 1806. He was also Chancellor of the Exchequer for all of his time as prime minister. He is known as "Pitt the Younger" to distinguish him from his father, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, who had previously served as prime minister and is referred to as "William Pitt the Elder" (or "Chatham" by historians). Pitt served as prime minister for a total of eighteen years, 343 days, making him the second-longest serving British prime minister of all time, after Robert Walpole. DESCRIPTION Octavo. 112 pp, set in Bodoni and printed on Zuber Rieder pure cotton paper in an edition of 25 copies (this is no 2). Bound by hand in leather with marbled boards, in a slipcase. Attractively bound by hand, titles, and decoration to spine gilt, marbled edges. CONDITION Brand new copy in a fine binding. GUARANTEE We offer a full money back guarantee on our descriptions. Please ask for details and conditions.
Published by Lisbon, Na Impressão Regia, (1809)., 1809
Seller: Richard C. Ramer Old and Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Small 4°, disbound (half title and plate loose). Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. Engraved plate with portrait of Pitt (severely cropped at outer and lower margins). In fair condition. (1 l. half title), plate, 12 pp. *** Second Edition in Portuguese, but the first of the present translation of this speech by the Right Hon. William Pitt in Parliament on Thursday, January 31, 1799. The engraved portrait, dated 1809, is signed by Fontes (Constantino de Fontes, 1777-ca. 1840). In the foreground of the portrait is a fanciful map in which the words "Mar de India", "India", "Goa", "Angola", "Beng", and "Macao" can be read. The edition whose title begins Plano sabio . printed at Lisbon: Typografia Lacerdina, 1808, does not contain a portrait. "With the Portuguese Court in Brazil he foresees the foundation of a great Empire in America linked to Great Britain by a common commercial policy. He predict the foundation of a large city, New Lisbon, in the centre of Brazil, and royal roads will link the new capital with Porto Bello, Cayena, Pará, Rio de Janeiro, Olinda, Calhao."-Borba de Moraes. Borba further states:"It may be noted the William Pitt is foretelling the foundation of Brasilia. This fact was recalled when President Kubitschek of Brazil was compaigning for the building of the new capital. This famous speech by William Pitt apparently enjoyed some success in Portugal when it was delivered. Two editions were printed, with different titles . Both editions are much sought after today." It should be noted that not only are the titles of the two editions different, but that the translations of the texts are also somewhat different.*** Borba de Moraes (1983) II, 677. Gonçalves Rodrigues, A tradução em Portugal 2890 (no collation or location; taken from Balbi). Ayres Magalhães de Sepúlveda, Dicionário bibliográfico da Guerra Peninsular III, 61. Biblioteca Pública de Braga, Catálogo do Fundo Barca-Oliveira, p. 193 (but without mention of the half title, portrait, or final blank leaf). JCB, Portuguese and Brazilian Books 809/14. Not in Rodrigues. Porbase locates four copies of the present edition, one in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and three in the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Jisc cites a single copy, at Oxford University. Not located in Hollis or Orbis.
Published by Summers & Young Printers Sunderland. No date c., 1806
A savage and bitterly-sarcastic satirical spoof epitaph, the text of which, the Liverpool Mercury reported in 1822, had been 'repeatedly published before'. Some versions are said to have included a woodcut by George Cruikshank, but the only other publication found (with a few minor variations from the present version) is in the Irish Magazine, June 1809, pp.286-287, where the author is named as 'WILKS INR.', i.e. '[John] Wilkes [sic] Junior'. Printed on one side of a 26.5 x 10 cm piece of unwatermarked wove paper. In fair condition, aged and worn, with several fold lines, and one closed tear repaired with archival tape. Titled: 'An | Inscription | for the Proposed | Monument to the Rt. Hon. W. Pitt. | Respectfully dedicated to the Subscribers to his Statue. | De Mortuis nil nisi Verum.' Sixty-seven lines of centred text, beginning: 'This Mausoleum entombs | WILLIAM PITT, | Who died January 23, 1806, aged only 47 years. | With unprecedented influence | For 23 years he was PRIME MINISTER of | The British Empire. | He possessed great Talents and transcendant | Eloquence, | But his Worth may be best estimated | "By Experience and the Evidence of Facts."' Pitt's 'achievements' are listed: 'He was the Advocate for Reform, which did not succeed. | The Opposer of the Slave Trade, which increased. | The Patron of the Irish Catholics, who were not emancipated. | To England a professed Protector, and the avowed Enemy to France. | During his Government | The Bulwarks of British Freedom were subverted, | The Ancient Nobility degraded, | The Poor additionally depressed, | The Middling Classes of Society nearly annihilated, | Popular Associations prohibited, and | The Sources of Corruption deepened and enlarged.' The epitaph continues in the same vein, including the observation that 'Two Hundred Thousand Britons' were sacrificed in '"Just and necessary Wars"'. There is a list of overthrown Britain's allies, with the comment 'Let Nations glory in such Friendship!', and France's prosperity during the period is described, with the comment 'Let Nations deprecate such Enmity!' The only groups said to have benefited during Pitt's ministry are 'The Committee of Lloyd's Coffee House, | The Collectors of Taxes, | The Purchasers of Loans, and Contractors for the | Army, | The Modern Nobility, | Lord Melville, | and | Napoleon, Emperor of France, | Enriched, ennobled, protected, and aggrandized by | "This Friend of the People!" | "This Saviour of Britain!!" | "This Protector of Europe!!!" | "This Heaven-born Minister!!!!" | "This Pilot that weather'd the Storm!!!!!"' No other copy of a work of this title, let alone this Sunderland printing, found on either WorldCat or COPAC. BBTI has Summers & Young active in Sunderland between 1800 and 1812. Copac lists three items by the firm between 1803 and 1810.
Published by Printed for the Author. 1783, 1783
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Mostly unopened. Uncut in orig. light blue boards, excellently rebacked. v.g. ESTC T111149; 4 copies in British Isles. Godwin's first published work. Godwin muses on the role of the historian in his introduction: 'much has been said of historical impartiality; and the generality seem to require it, as the first, and most indispensable quality of this branch of literature [.] Lover, as I am, of impartiality, I think it my duty, in this place, to advertise my reader, that this kind of impartiality, I abjure, and I despise.'.
Published by T. Cadell & W. Davies. 1809, 1809
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Half titles, front. ports vols 1 & 2. Neatly bound in early dark blue binder's cloth, brown morocco labels, lettered in gilt; spines sl. faded with small nicks at the heads of vols 5 & 6. A nice set. William Pitt the Younger, 1759-1806, is the youngest ever Prime Minister of Great Britain, first assuming office when only 24. He served in the role twice, from 1783-1801, and 1804-1806, dying in office at the age of 46. John Gifford, 1758-1818, was a political writer and staunch supporter of Pitt's government, and published a number of pamphlets supporting him.
Published by W. Darton, jun. 1806, 1806
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Small broadside, 29.5 x 13cm. 65 lines printed on recto only, with mourning borders. v.g. Two copies on Copac, Aberdeen & BL; the BL copy signed 'Wilks'. OCLC adds Princeton, unsigned. A far from adulatory epitaph, listing the (many) failings of the recently deceased Pitt, who died in office on January 23rd, 1806. 'He was the advocate of reform, which did not succeed: the opposer of the slave-trade, which increased: the patron of the Irish Catholics, who were not emancipated.'.
Published by Downing Street London. 6 March, 1789
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
The letter is written a few weeks after the king's recovery from his first bout of mental instability. In the period immediately preceeding the king's recovery a Regency Bill had been making its way through the House of Commons. It was made redundant by the king's recovery; had it been enacted the Prince of Wales, as Regent, would almost certainly have dismissed Pitt in favour of his rival Charles James Fox. At the time Earl Gower (later the first Duke of Sutherland) was Member of Parliament for Staffordshire, and in this letter Pitt asks him to 'move the Address to be proposed in the House of Commons', expressing thanks at the king's recovery. 2pp, 4to. On a single sheet. In fair condition, aged and worn. Folded twice, with a short closed tear at edge of one crease. The letter reads: 'My Dear Lord | Under the peculiar Circumstances of the Speech which is to be made on Tuesday by the Commissioners appointed to hold the Parliament, which will announce the happy Event of His Majesty's Recovery. I cannot help expressing a Wish that your Lordship would undertake to move the Address to be postponed in the House of Commons. The Nature of the Occasion will I hope justify my troubling you with this Request, and it will afford me on every account particular Satisfaction, that the first Step previous to our entering again on Public Business should be brought forward with so much advantage. - I shall be extremely happy if your Lordship will permit me to take an early Opportunity of communicating to you the particulars of the Speech.' 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'.
Published by Printed by George Grierson, Dublin, 1799
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 53pp. Rebound in brown cloth, gilt spine. Light scattered foxing, about near fine. Pitt's influential speech arguing for the (successful) Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Scarce. *OCLC* locates three copies. *ESTC* T58113.
Published by Lisbon, Na Impressao Regia, (1809)., 1809
Seller: Richard C. Ramer Old and Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
4°, disbound. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. Engrave plate with portrait of Pitt. Portrait shaved at lower margin, affecting more than half of final line of text reading "Primeiro Ministro da Gram Bretanha." Overall in good to very good condition. Manuscript ink pagination: 375-390. (1 l. half title), 12 pp., (1 blank l.), folding engraved frontispiece portrait. *** Second Edition in Portuguese, but the first of the present translation of this speech by the Right Hon. William Pitt in Parliament on Thursday, January 31, 1799. The engraved portrait, dated 1809, is signed by Fontes (Constantino de Fontes, 1777-ca. 1840). In the foreground of the portrait is a fanciful map in which the words "Mar de India", "India", "Goa", "Angola", "Beng", and "Macao" can be read. An edition whose title begins Plano sabio . printed at Lisbon: Typografia Lacerdina, 1808, does not contain a portrait. Both editions are rare and sought after. It should be noted that not only are the titles of the two editions different, but that the translations of the texts are also somewhat different. Pages 8-12 of the speech discuss, with amazing foresight, the moving of the seat of the Portuguese empire to Brazil. Pitt predicts the founding of a large city, Nova Lisboa, in the interior of Brazil, with roads connecting it to Porto Bello, Cayenne, Rio de Janeiro, Olinda, Callao, Grão Pará, the Amazon, Rio de la Plata, Bahia, etc. The Portuguese and British empires would be linked by a common commercial policy. Pitt's idea of founding a Nova Lisboa in the interior of Brazil was recalled when President Kubitschek began campaigning for a new Brazilian capital. Hence Pitt foretold not only the removal of the Portuguese court to Rio de Janeiro in 1808, but the founding of Brasilia in the twentieth century. *** Borba de Moraes (1983) II, 677. Gonçalves Rodrigues, A tradução em Portugal 2890 (no collation or location; taken from Balbi). Ayres Magalhães de Sepúlveda, Dicionário bibliográfico da Guerra Peninsular III, 61. Biblioteca Pública de Braga, Catálogo do Fundo Barca-Oliveira, p. 193 (but without mention of the half title, portrait, or final blank leaf). JCB, Portuguese and Brazilian Books 809/14. Not in Rodrigues. Porbase locates four copies of the present edition, one in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and three in the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Jisc cites a single copy, at Oxford University. Not located in Hollis or Orbis.
Published by James Cawthorn, London, 1810
Seller: La Playa Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Used - very good. Signed. Association Copy, Charlotte Turner Smith, The Emigrants, William Hayley Autograph, Thomas Campbell Autograph, William Pitt the Younger Autograph. VG. 85pp, plus 3 pages of ads (most recent dated 1810). 'Kent' watermark on first blank, 'G&RT' on title page. (Contemporary?) three-quarter red leather and swirl-patterned boards and endpapers, spine with four gilt-ruled raised bands and five compartments, four compartments with gilt decoration and fifth with gilt lettering. Binding strong, with slight spine lean, small patches of black stain to covers and a tiny nick to the leather at the front spine fold. All gilt is at least VG, and quite attractive married to the red leather. As with many other copies of this title, there are numerous portrait plates interleaved (34), however, bound into this copy is the autograph of William Pitt the Younger, an autographed letter signed (ALS) from the poet, Thomas Campbell, expressing his regrets for not being able to attend a function, and most significantly, a 4-sided (2 leaves) ALS, dated Feb 17, 1793, from the writer and literary patron, William Hayley. The letter is to the publisher Thomas Cadell, Sr., and concerns itself with the promotion of Charlotte (Turner) Smith's poem, 'The Emigrants,' at the time in manuscript form. 'My Dear Sir, I have often regretted that a separation ever happend between you & a certain great authoress, whom I had once the pleasure of settling in your house. I will not attempt to rewrite you in prose-but I may perhaps bring you together again in verse to your mutual advantage & satisfaction. Our admirable friend, Mrs. C.S. (whose spirit & genius still triumph over calamities, that would utterly overwhelm inferior talents) has almost finished a poem, that has a chance, I think, of proving very popular. Should it prove so, after succeeding in quarto, it would make a pleasing second volume to her popular sonnets-This work is entitled 'The Emigrants' & describes with great tenderness their various sufferings, which the poetess has seen completely at Brighton, & which (to her horror) she has frequently relieved by all the aid, that humanity without opulence could bestow-The poem is somewhat in the manner of Cowper's Task-it will consist, however, but of two books, containing altogether about a thousand verses-Can you for this give the admirable & alas the too indigent poetess an hundred guineas, on receiving the work complete the beginning of April, with the following liberal condition, that if it proves as popular as her sanguine friends hope it may, you will, after reimbusrsing yourself, divide with her, in equal moneties, all future profit? I shall soon send her manuscript to my excellent friend, Cowper, that it may be revised by him, as he saw our Parisian sister here in the summer, & is most kindly anxious to render her every service in his power; as indeed every man of his talent & virtues must be-I write in extreme haste, but as a friendly wish of preserving a poetical union between you & my fair friend struck very forcibly on my mind & heart, I would not delay to consult your wishes on so interesting a subject-adieu. Ever Sincerely Yrs, W Haley. Feb 17, 1793'. According to Judith Phillips Stanton, in 'The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith' (p. XVIII) William Hayley befriended Smith at the beginning of her career, and Smith 'depended on him to correct her work, to teach her the ways of the booksellers' world, and to introduce her to other writers. In fact, Hayley arranged for her to meet the like-minded William Cowper on their well-documented visit to Earlham in August, 1792. Cowper subsequently read Smith's blank verse poem The Emigrants (1794 [actually 1793?]), presumably with a critical eye, before its publication, and she dedicated it to him.' Based on this letter we can now perhaps more than 'presume' that Cowper had a hand in editing the manuscript. 'The Emigrants' deals with the plight of those fleeing the tumultuous rebellion in France, the suffering Smith was aware of first hand, and attested to by Hayley in this letter. Although considered a significant literary talent (Smith was given credit for reviving the sonnet, and her 'romantic' novels were quite popular), contemporary criticism of some of her writings was that she incorporated her personal grief and misery into her stories and poems, and in this case, 'herself, and not the French emigrants, fills the foreground; begins and ends the piece; and the pity we should naturally feel for those overwhelming and uncommon distresses she describes, is lessened by their being brought into parallel with the inconveniences of a narrow income or a protracted law-suit.' (Unattributed contemporary critique). Certainly, as literary criticism, this judgment is justified, but just how grievous Smith's 'inconvenient narrow income' and 'protracted lawsuit' were appears unsympathetically swept aside once one learns of the degree of her plight. Smith was given away to marriage before the age of 16, her husband was a drunkard who, thanks to the law of the land at the time, was able not only to spend most of the inheritance his father set aside for their kids, but even after they were separated, was able to come to her legally with demands for proceeds earned from her writings. She ended up raising their children alone, suffered greatly from rheumatism, fought for her rights with her publishers, at the same time suffered the indignity of begging them, and patrons, to help her through until the next month's rent was due, commiserated with those who likewise suffered, especially those persecuted and subsequently downtrodden due to political convictions, and finally, fighting legally a losing battle for almost her entire adult life, she did not receive the inheritance intended for her children until she was months from her death. 'Left to her own defenses in a world where women's rights were negligible, she had long since discovered that her insistent, complaining, abrasi. Signed.
Published by Downing Street, [London], 1792
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Old folds. With Mackenzie's docket "From Mr. Pitt 6 Feby. 1792. His opinion of my pamphlet.". 4to. Reading in part: ".I really cannot forbear expressing how very sincerely I feel myself obliged to the author.if its political tendency were out of the question.it would. afford me more pleasure than almost any publication I ever remember to have read." MacKenzie was known as the "Addison of the North." With Mackenzie's docket "From Mr. Pitt 6 Feby. 1792. His opinion of my pamphlet.". 4to.