Miscellaneous Thoughts Present Posture Foreign, First Edition (4 results)

pp. 80. 8vo. Stitched as issued. 1st edition. Title, last leaf and edges dusty, internally clean. ESTC T39435.

First edition, 80pp., disbound. Written in support of Sir Robert Walpole. Sabin, 31607; Goldsmith, 7946.

Wraps. Condition: Fair. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 80 pages. Some page foxing noted. Some moisture staining around edges at early pages. John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, PC (13 October 1696 5 August 1743) was an English courtier and political writer. Heir to the Earl of Bristol, he obtained the key patronage of Walpole, and was involved in many court intrigues and literary quarrels, being apparently caricatured by Pope and Fielding. His memoirs of the early reign of George II were too revealing to be published in his time and did not appear for more than a century. In 1725 he was elected M.P. for Bury St Edmunds. Hervey had been hesitating between William Pulteney (afterwards earl of Bath) and Robert Walpole, but in 1730 he definitely took sides with Walpole, of whom he was thenceforward a faithful adherent. He was able to render valuable service to Walpole from his influence with the Queen. Through him the minister governed Queen Caroline and indirectly George II. Hervey was vice-chamberlain in the royal household and a member of the Privy Council. In 1733 he was called to the House of Lords by writ of acceleration in his father's Barony. After the fall of Sir Robert Walpole, he was dismissed (July 1742) from his office. An excellent political pamphlet, Miscellaneous Thoughts on the present Posture of Foreign and Domestic Affairs, shows that he still retained his mental vigor. He predeceased his father, but three of his sons became successively Earls of Bristol. Miscellaneous thoughts on the present posture both of our foreign and domestic affairs: humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Parliament and the people. Author: John Hervey. Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Per Sabin this was published anonymously. By John Hervey, Baron Hervey.

First Edition, 80pp., disbound. Written in support of Sir Robert Walpole. Sabin, 31607; Goldsmith, 7946.