Sinclair Sir John Bt (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Format, octavo, 218mm. Physical description, [3] iv - vii, [1] 2 - 492, [1] 2 - 96. Plates, 10, no's 1 - 9 are at the rear, no. 10 is opposite p.491. There is also an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author. Most of the plates are offset. All edges speckled red, the contents are occasionally very lightly spotted. Ink signature of C.E. Branfill at the head of the title page. Later nineteenth century half calf over marbled paper backed boards, sometime new endpapers. Overall, a near fine copy. Sir John Sinclair (1754 - 1835) was born at Caithness, in the north of Scotland. He studied at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Oxford. He was created a baronet in 1786, and was the founder of the Board of Trade. For more details of Sinclair see - Inglis and Palgrave, Dictionary of Political Economy. Vol, III, p, 402/403. The ink signature of C. E. Branfill in ink at the head of the titlepage, is probably that of Champion Edward Branfill [IV] (1789-1844) was one of the Branfills at Upminster Hall, Essex.Champion Edward Branfill IV was a colourful and controversial figure, to say the least !; and was a liberal at a time when almost all other farmers were Tory. For more details of Branfill see The Branfills at Upminster Hall. Goldsmiths', 21760. Not traced in Kress.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Autograph letter signed ("J.G.T. Sinclair"), 1p. 8vo (mourning paper), Cannes, 7 December 1873. "I cordially approve of what you are endeavouring to attain with reference to the abolition, or at any rate the reform, of the noxious & most discreditable system of voting for charities" - and he will give him any support he can. John George Tollemache Sinclair (succeeded as third Bt 1868; 1825-1912) was MP for Caithness, 186- 85. Sir Charles Trevelyan (Bt 1874; 1807-1886), an ardent campaigner, had contributed to the December number of Macmillan's Magazine on "Charity Electioneering". Inscribed by Author(s).…