1810 The Letters of Junius

Description

Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

With a frontispiece and title vignette. A collection of private and open letters critical of the government of King George III from an anonymous polemicist, as well as other letters in-reply from people to whom Junius had written between 1769 and 1772. The pseudonym may have been chosen because the same author had already signed Lucius and Brutus to other works, and wished to exhaust the name of Lucius Junius Brutus, the Roman patriot who led the overthrow of the Roman monarchy. Claimed by some to be Philip Francis, an Irish-born British politician and pamphleteer, the true identity has never been formally verified.