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    By James Earl Waldegrave
    London   John Murray
    10.5" by 8.5" xxiii [4], 4-176pp
    Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece, this is the first edition of the mid-19th century memoirs of James Earl Waldegrave, who was Prime Minister for only five days.
    By James Earl Waldegrave

    1821 Memoirs from 1754 to 1758

    London   John Murray
    10.5" by 8.5" xxiii [4], 4-176pp
    Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece, this is the first edition of the mid-19th century memoirs of James Earl Waldegrave, who was Prime Minister for only five days.
    £90.00
    : 1.5kgs / : 982F12
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    Description

    First Edition, Leather Binding

    The first edition of this posthumously published work.

    Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.

    The selected memoirs of James Waldegrave, second Earl Waldegrave, who was one of the shortest-serving Prime Ministers of Britain.

    Waldegrave's memoirs, considered important in the record and development of Whig history, detail the importance of his time as First Lord of the Treasury.

    With the armorial bookplate of Frederick Keppel to the front pastedown.

    Rebacked, with endpapers renewed.

    Retaining half title.

    Condition

    Rebacked, retaining original diced calf boards. Significant rubbing to back strip head and tail and joints. Endpapers renewed. Hinges strained, and somewhat tender. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally bright, with spotting and instances of foxing.

    Good

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