Author: Sylvester Douglas; Francis Bickley [editor]
Title: The Diaries of Sylvester Douglas (Lord Glenbervie)
Description: London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1928. First edition. Cloth. Two first edition volumes of the diaries of British lawyer and politician Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie. Complete in two volumes. First edition. With a frontispiece to each volume. The diaries of Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie, a British lawyer and politician who was Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1793 and 1794. The diaries cover the period between 1793 and , with commentary on Sheridan and Lord North, the Duke of Clarence, Sir Lionel Darrell, Dudley Ryder, Napoleon, and more. Edited by Francis Bickley, a British writer. Previously held in the library of the Laurence family, with notes from a Godfrey Laurence referring to their familial connection to these works as descendants of French Laurence, an English jurist, man of letters, and a close associate of Edmund Burke, whose work is referenced in the text. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor rubbing to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd neat pencil annotation. The front panel of the original dust wrapper has been pasted to the front free endpaper of volume one. Previous owner's bookplate and ink inscription to the front pastedown. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

Keywords: Diaries Douglas Bickley Laurence Douglas None


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