Author: GREVILLE, CHRALES C. F.
Title: The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV, King William IV. and Queen Victoria. Edited by Henry Reeve. In Eight Volumes.
Description: New Impression; Demy 8vo; Vol. I. pp. xxiv, 432; Vol. II. pp. x, 393; Vol. III. pp. x, 418; Vol. IV. pp. xx, 417; Vol. V. pp. x, 443; Vol. VI. pp. x, 501; Vol. VII. pp. x, 320; Vol. VIII. pp. x, 382; original decorated endpapers in each volume, portrait frontispiece in Vol. I, index in Vol. VIII, each bound in matching maroon cloth, title lettered in gilt on spines, gilt-blocked decoration on spines and upper boards, top edge dusty, cloth a little worn some spines a little cocked but overall a very good tight set. London; Longmans, Green, and Co.; 1896-1899. Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794-1865) was one of Englands greatest diarists. These Journals were first published as instructed by him ten years after his death. They first appeared in eight volumes between 1874 and 1887 and have become an important historical source for this period. The new impression being offer here is unaltered in any respect from the original, but sheets have been carefully revised, the errors which occurred in the earlier editions have been as far as possible, corrected, and some additional notes have been introduced.

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