Author: Charles C. F. Greville
Title: The Greville Memoirs (Third Part): A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria
Description: London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1887 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of two volumes of Charles C. F. Greville's personal journals, chronicling Queen Victoria's reign between the years 1852 and 1860. The two volume 1852 to 1860 first edition of this journal. Complete as a two volume work, these volumes are frequently incorporated into larger eight volume sets of Greville's journals, which study of the reigns of three monarchs.Charles Greville was a diarist who was the Clerk of the Council in Ordinary, serving under Kings George IV and William IV, and Queen Victoria.The journals are faithful records of the period, with detailed and competent observations of events Greville witnessed and the people he associated with. When first published, with Queen Victoria stating that she was "horrified and indignant at this dreadful and really scandalous book". Retaining the original half titles. In half morocco bindings, with marbled paper covered boards. Significant rubbing to joints, raised bands, and back strip head and tail. Lower half of front joint of volume I, and head of front joint of volume II starting, with boards firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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