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GREVILLE, Charles - The Greville Diary: Including Passages Hitherto Withheld from Publication

Title: The Greville Diary: Including Passages Hitherto Withheld from Publication
Description: Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Edited by Philip Whitwell Wilson. Small 4to. Dark green buckram with gilt spine lettering. xiv, 568pp; xiii, 602pp. Top edges gilt. Frontispieces, illustrations. Very good. Faintest of binding wear only; inoffensive darkening to first volume bottom page edges (only); tight and internally near fine. Attractive first edition of this truly complete, unedited journal of this high-level English civil servant and diarist (1794-1865). It was originally published in edited versions in 1874 (1817-37 time period), 1885 (1837-52) and 1887 (1852-60) and enormously popular in both the U.K. and the U.S. Each front pastedown bears the tasteful custom bookplate of "The Union League Club of Chicago. .

Keywords: Odds & Ends

Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 47607

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