1808 A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

An extra-illustrated first edition of this work, the ordinary demy quarto on "common paper" paper copy, rather than the large paper edition.

From English Whig politician and statesman Charles James Fox.

Handsomely bound in full straight grain morocco, with gilt detailing.

Collated, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece as called for, but extra illustrated with a further thirty-eight plates. 

This work is a piece of Whig history, and regards the ongoing struggle between the absolutist designs of monarchs and the struggle of their subjects to assert their liberty.

Bound without half title and terminal advertisements.

With the bookplate of the Court Library Shadwell to the front pastedown, and with the label Brackenburn to the front free endpaper.

Charles James Fox was a prominent British Whig whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th century.