An Answer to the Latter Part of Lord Bolingbroke's Letters on the Study of History. By the Late Lord Walpole of Woolterton. In a Series of Letters to a Noble Lord. Part I and II.

An Answer to the Latter Part of Lord Bolingbroke's Letters on the Study of History. By the Late Lord Walpole of Woolterton. In a Series of Letters to a Noble Lord. Part I and II. London: Printed by W. Richardon and S. Clark. 1762. Paginates: 202, [2] pg. Collates A2, B-2C4. Errata on last leaf [C4, 203]. Complete. The scarce 4to First Edition, which would be published the following year in an 8vo format. Bound in contemporary half calf over marble boards. Minor rubbing to the boards and spine. Binding remains well preserved. Internally fine. Surface dirt to Title Page. Printed on a high-quality paper. With the bookplate of Lord Sandys.* The volume measures 22.8 x 18.4 x 2 cm. Each leaf measures 220 x 180 mm. In this posthumous work Lord Walpole attacks Bolingbroke s account of the last four years of the Queen, years when Bolingbroke was a leading figure in the Tory administration and Walpole a young Member of Parliament in opposition. Bolingbroke's Study of History was written in the 1730s but for political reasons was left unpublished until 1752. * Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys PC (1695-1770), was a British Whig politician who represented Worcester in the House of Commons from 1718 until 1743, when he was created Baron Sandys. He held numerous posts in the government of the United Kingdom, namely Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leader of the House of Commons, Cofferer of the Household and First Lord of Trade. He was also a justice in eyre.…