Author: [JONES (David)]:
Title: The History of the Most Serene House of Brunswick-Lunenburgh, In all the Branches thereof, from its Origin, to the Death of Queen Anne. Containing The Illustrious Actions of those Princes, both in Peace and War; with many Curious Memoirs concerning the Succession of that Family to the Crown of Great Britain, &c. Also A Political Description of His present Majesty's Dominions in Germany: His Genealogy from the Original, done at Brunswick, since his Happy Accession to the Throne; and an Appendix of ancient Records, and other valuable Papers.
Description: Londonj: Printed for John Pemberton..., 1715. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 190 x 113 mms., pp. [xx], 461 [462 - 486 Index], engraved frontispiece, two leaves of folding engraved genealogy between pages 436 and 437, engraved view of Warwick Castle at end of volume, two armorial bookplates of William Lee Antonie on front paste-down end-paper and a bove them," Colnorth Library/ repaired/ 1828" and "refunded M. Wilson", contemporary calf, later reback with raised bands between gilt rules, red morocco label; corners worn, but a good to very good copy. IMG E754 Very little seems to be known about David Jones; ESTC notes that he flourished between 1676 and 1720. Edward Gibbon might have made use of the book, as his essay on the house of Brunswick, printed in Patrcicia Cradock's edition, The English Essays of David Gibbon (1972), though Jones's book was not in his library, or at least not in Keynes's The Library of Edward Gibbon (19500. David Wormersely in his article, "Gibbon's Unfinished History: The French Revolution and English Political Vocabularies" (The Historical Journal, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Mar., 1992), quotes a salient passage about the about the Hanoverian claim to the throne. Jones dedicate the book to George I and asserts "You are descended from the First of KINGS of the Plantagenet Race, from the First of our KINGS of the Teudor Line, from the First of our KINGS of the Stuartine Race; and that Your most August Father, or SOVEREIGN LORD, is become the FOUNDER of Another; which we hope and pray, may Govern these Nations...." Womersley also notes that the work aspired to confirm the "Veneration" of the ancestors of George I, displayed in the genealogical table at the end of the book.

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