Strafford, Signed (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with no DJ. Pictorial cloth boards with white lettering on front board. Title and copyright pages dated 1966. Stated Second Printing November 1967. 202 pages. Black and white photograph of gentlemen on horseback surrounded by dogs across front and rear boards. Lettering on front board is neat and tidy. Small 1/4 inch spot of toning on front board near bottom left edge. Top and bottom edges of spine bumped. Black and white photographs of notable Virginia houses and landmarks throughout. Text printed in columns of two per page and legible. Binding strong and tight. Very Good condition. Signed by Eleanor Lee Templeman and Nan Netherton on the front free endpaper with no inscriptions. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Large 8vo.pp.718. ISBN:9780648002147. Fiction. A novel based on the real characters of Charles 1, Buckingham, and Stafford, and dealing with "one of the most appalling and gripping miscarriages of justice in English history." Signed presentation from the author:"To Dear Rebecca, This is one of the first 20 books sold. T.G. Stanton. 23rd April 2017." About fine. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed to a bookplate. Unread new copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Fine in fine wrapper. First printing. Signed copy, to title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Fine in fine wrapper. First printing. Signed copy, to title page. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Folio. 11" x 17 5/8". Two Unbound Pages: Facsimile Of Manuscript With Deckled Edges, and Transcription With Commentary, Very Good with some creasing. From the Autograph Edition-de-Luxe, Numbered 36, signed by Oliver H. Leigh, Editorial Director.

1st printing. SIGNED 4x by Fenner. 11, [1 (blank)] pp. Of particular note are pages 8 & 9, which list 48 ladies of the Association. 7-13/16" x 4-3/4" Fenner was a Dover physician who served as Surgeon of the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment in the Mexican War. He was also a founder of the Anti-Slavery Society in 1835, and was involved in other social causes as well as educational efforts. Scarce catalogue from this New Hampshire institution, OCLC shows no institutional holdings, with a sole holding of the 1851/52 catalogue [U of NH]. Age-toning, with some soiling to wrappers. Small stain in fored-edge of text-block. Withal, a VG copy of this rare survivor. Original publisher's printed buff paper wrappers, stitched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.

A gathering together of the authors works.Bound together are: A Travellers Thoughts (new edition 1841), the Victim (new edition 1841), Sandal In The Olden Times (new edition 1841), Henry Clifforde & Margaret Percy, Ballad Of Bolton Abbey & Other Poems (1st 1843), The Siege Of Granada (1st 1841), Emilia Monteiro-Ballad Of The Old Hall, heath & The Widow & The Earl - A Ballad Of Sharlston Hall (1st 1843), Strafford - A Tragedy (1st 1842), Oliver Cromwell - A Drama In 5 Acts (1st 1843, with errata slip), The Batuecas, Francisco Alvarez & Other Poems (1st 1844), Montezuma, A Ballad Of Mexico, The Red Hand & Other Poems (1st 1845). All published by Longmans & bound in contemporary marbled boards, with marbled endpapers. Leather spine with gilt titles & decorations. Page edges marbled. Minor wear on boards, edges & corners otherwise a noce clean copy. SIGNED & dedicated from the author "Heath, Nov 17th 1845". Born in Wakefield, the author was the son of a local Quaker banker. Active in local politics he went on to represent Wakefield & later The South-West Riding Of Yorkshire in parliament. Copies of his books are seldom seen. Uncommon.

First Edition, With the elaborately engraved bookplates of Sir Edward Smith, 1st Baronet of Edmonthorpe (c.16301707), Representative in the Little Parliament 1653, High Sheriff of Leicestershire, 1665 and the heraldic plate of the 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire OBE DL, styled Lord Hobart from 1875 to 1885, a British Liberal politician who sat on the Liberal benches in the House of Lords and served briefly as a Lord-in-waiting from January to June 1895 in the Liberal administration of Lord Rosebery. Illustrated with the engraved frontispiece of the Earl of Strafford, and with finely decorated engraved intial letters, one being nine- and one being 15-line, a fine and elaborate headpiece to the dedication leaf. Folio, 12.5" x 7 7/8", Full, contemporary mottled calf, the spine with raised bands and original red morocco lettering label gilt, the covers bordered with triple fillet rules in blind, decorated floral tools at the corners in blind. [x], 1 - 76, 101 - 252, 401 - 786 pp. Collated Complete as called for despite pagination shifts. A fine copy, crisp, clean, and unpressed, the binding strong and tight, some imperceptible expert strengthening to the hinges, aged in a pleasing way. FINE FIRST EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY CALF. Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593 12 May 1641), was an English statesman and a major figure in the period leading up to the English Civil War. He served in Parliament and was a supporter of King Charles I. From 1632 to 1640 he was Lord Deputy of Ireland, where he established a strong authoritarian rule. Recalled to England, he became a leading advisor to the King, attempting to strengthen the royal position against Parliament. When Parliament condemned Lord Strafford to death, Charles reluctantly signed the death warrant and Strafford was executed.[ He had been advanced several times in the Peerage of England during his career, being created 1st Baron Wentworth in 1628, 1st Viscount Wentworth in late 1628 or early 1629, and, finally, 1st Earl of Strafford in January 1640. He was known as Sir Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baronet, between 1614 and 1628. Strafford's. offense was outside the definition of high treason. Although a flood of complaints poured in from Ireland, and Strafford's many enemies there were happy to testify against him, none of them could point to any act which was treasonable, as opposed to high-handed. The copy of rough notes of Strafford's speech in the committee of the council, were validated by councillors who had been present on the occasion, including Henry Vane the Elder, and partially by Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland. This was not evidence which would convict in a court of law, and all parties knew this. Strafford's words, particularly the crucial phrase "this kingdom", had to be arbitrarily interpreted as referring to the subjection of England and not of Scotland, and were also spoken on a privileged occasion. Strafford took full advantage of the weak points in his attack on the evidence collected. Over and over Strafford pointed to the fundamental weakness in the prosecution: how could it be treason to carry out the King's wishes? The lords, his judges, were influenced in his favour. The impeachment failed on 10 April 1641. Pym and his allies increased public pressure, threatening members of Parliament unless they punished Strafford. The Commons, therefore, feeling their victim slipping from their grasp, dropped the impeachment, and brought in and passed a bill of attainder on 21 April by a vote of 204 to 59. Owing to the opposition of the Lords, and Pym's own preference for the more judicial method, the procedure of impeachment was adhered to. Following news of Strafford's execution, Ireland rose in sanguinary rebellion in October 1641, which led to more bickering between King and Parliament, this time over the raising of an army. Any hope that Strafford's death would avert the coming crisis soon vanished: Wedgwood quotes the anonymous protest "They promised us that all should be well if my Lord Strafford's head were off, since when there is nothing better". Many of Strafford's Irish enemies, like Lord Cork, found that his removal had put their estates, and even their lives, at risk. When Charles I himself was executed eight years later, among his last words were that God had permitted his execution as punishment for his consenting to Strafford's death: "that unjust sentence which I suffered to take effect". In 1660, the House of Lords voted to expunge the record of Strafford's attainder from its official Journal, with the intention of repudiating its legal validity. wiki.

Condition: Good. Engraving on laid paper. Mounted on support sheet. Signed and dated in the plate. 15.9 x 11 cm (plate). Very Good. Trimmed to the plate mark. Minor soiling.

Condition: Very Good. Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (13 April 1593 (O.S.) ? 12 May 1641) was an English statesman and a major figure in the period leading up to the English Civil War. He served in Parliament and was a supporter of King Charles I. From 1632 to 1639 he instituted a harsh rule as Lord Deputy of Ireland. Recalled to England, he became a leading advisor to the king, attempting to strengthen the royal position against Parliament. When Parliament condemned him to death, Charles signed the death warrant and Wentworth was executed., Image Size : 406x559 (mm), 16.00x22.00 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : , Hand Colored, Aquatint.

no binding. Condition: very good. Exquisite 1840s Steel Engraving - Published by THE LONDON PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY Approximate Portrait Image Area Size: 4 X 5 inches Approximate Size With Decorated Border and vignettes: 6 X 7 1/2 inches Approximate Overall Size with margins: 7 X 10 1/2 inches Enlarged view of the top vignette. A beautiful elaborate fleur de lis scrollwork decorative border surrounds the image, with a tiny vignette at the top of the portrait image. The vignette may represent the family coat of arms or crest.The celtic like ornamental perimeter scrollwork surrounding the portrait is a beautiful work of art, typical of a John Tallis type production. A great historical portrait print for a genealogy buff looking for family heritage or royalty type prints. This antique english portrait depicts Wentworth in a medieval renaissance era suit of armor. Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford (1593 1641), English statesman. Regularly elected to Parliament from 1614 on, he became one of the critics of George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham, and of the war with Spain. Charles I made him sheriff of Yorkshire in order to exclude him from the Parliament of 1626, but Wentworth continued his opposition and was imprisoned (1627) for refusing to pay the forced loan. In the Parliament of 1628 he advocated a moderate version of the Petition of Right, but when Sir John Eliot and Sir Edward Coke succeeded in carrying their more severe form of the petition, he lost influence. At this point Charles sought his adherence by creating him baron and viscount and president of the council of the north (1628), and Wentworth realigned himself as a firm supporter of royal prerogative. With William Laud , Wentworth evolved the policy known as Thorough to achieve an absolutist but just and efficient regime. As lord deputy of Ireland (1632-40) he systematically applied this policy. He cleared the sea of pirates, bolstered trade and industry (always with an eye to England's interest), began a reorganization of the church in Ireland, and enforced reforms in financial administration that doubled the state's revenue. However, his methods were ruthlessly despotic, and he aroused even more fear and hatred. After Charles I's humiliation by the Scots in the first Bishops' War, Wentworth was recalled (1639) to England to become the king's chief adviser. Created earl of Strafford in 1640, he obtained money from the Irish Parliament to raise Irish troops to fight the Scots, but he was unable to get a similar grant of supplies from the Short Parliament (summoned on his advice) in England. An English army of sorts was mustered and placed under Strafford's command, but it was easily defeated by the Scots in a second war. When the Long Parliament assembled (1640), it suspected that Strafford had intended to use Irish troops against the king's English opponents (although in fact the Irish army had never materialized). Impeachment proceedings were begun, but Strafford defended himself so ably that the opposition changed its tactics and introduced a legislative enactment of guilt, a bill of attainder, against him. The bill was finally passed in the panic following the discovery of the so-called army plot, by which the king had hoped to rescue Strafford and dissolve the Parliament. After anguished hesitation, Charles signed the bill, and Strafford was beheaded. CONDITION: Very Good Condition. Portrait Image area is clean, clear and sharp with beautiful detail and in Excellent Condition. Blank on Reverse side and printed heavier paper. This beautiful print would look great matted and framed. An art supply store can provide you with a selection of frames for old art treasures.