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Very Good. First American edition. Volume I only. 568pp. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with black and white plates. Very good with errata slip laid in, darkening on the spine, a small stamp on the rear free endpaper, and slightly bumped corners.
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Very good. VG+ condition; no dust jacket. 1927 Doubleday 1st edition in green cloth with gold titles and gold top edge. The covers look great. The binding is tight. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. Electronic delivery tracking will be issued free of charge. 602 pages.
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1927 Wilson, Philip Whitwell, ed THE GREVILLE DIARY Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927 2 vols illustrated lg 8vo, teg dark green cloth stamped in gold lettering on the spine of volume 1 slightly faded, else fine hardcover set.
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Good. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 568 pages (Vol I. ) & 602 pages (Vol. II); 3/4 blue leather w/ blue cloth. gilt design and lettering on spine, 5 raised bands; some light rubbing to the extremities, particularly on Vol II, corners bumped; interiors are very clean and neat, bindings tight and solid; both are ex-library with a pocket card on the rfep and a small library stamp on the title pages; Amid the journals which have instructed the mind and startled the senses of mankind, there are two which stand out preeminent, a class by themselves. Pepys is one, Greville the other....So plain was [Greville's] meaning that hitherto many of his pages have been withheld from the public. In these volumes, there will be found for the first time, those passages thus suppressed and Greville is permitted to tell the whole of the truth as he saw it. Greville was the grandson of the Duke of Portland, who sat twice as Prime Minister. His career was Clerk of the Privy Council under King George IV, and Queen Victoria.
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Good. Two volume set. Volume I, xiv, [2], 568, [2] pages and Volume II, xiii, [3], 602 pages. Illustrations. Index. Covers have some wear and soiling. Some page discoloration and soiling. Slightly shaken. Greville entered upon the discharge of the duties of a Clerk of the Council in ordinary in 1821, and continued to perform them for nearly forty years, until his retirement in 1859. He therefore served under three successive sovereigns (George IV, William IV and Victoria) and, although no political or confidential functions were attached to that office, it was one that brought him into habitual intercourse with the chiefs of all the parties in the state. Well-born, well-bred, handsome and accomplished, Greville led the easy life of a man of fashion, taking an occasional part in the transactions of his day and much consulted in the affairs of private life. In 1837 Greville won 9, 000 pounds from the first-place finish of his horse Mango in the St. Leger Stakes. Until 1855, when he sold his stud, he was an active member of the turf, and he trained successively with Lord George Bentinck and with the Duke of Portland. Greville died at Mayfair, London, and the celebrity now attached to his name is entirely due to the posthumous publication of a portion of a Journal or Diary that it was his practice to keep during the greater part of his life. These papers were given by him to his friend Henry Reeve a short time before his death, with an injunction that they should be published, as far as was feasible, at not too remote a period after the writer's death. The journals of the reigns of George IV and William IV, extending from 1817 to 1837, were published in obedience to his directions almost ten years after his death. Few publications have been received with greater interest by the public; five large editions were sold in little more than a year, and the demand in America was as great as in England. These journals were regarded as a faithful record of the impressions made on the mind of a competent observer, at the time, by the events he witnessed and the persons with whom he associated. Greville did not stoop to collect or record private scandal. His object appears to have been to leave behind him some of the materials of history, by which the men and actions of his own time would be judged. He records not so much public events as the private causes which led to them; and perhaps no English memoir-writer has left behind him a more valuable contribution to the history of the 19th century. Greville published anonymously, in 1845, a volume on the Past and Present Policy of England in Ireland, in which he advocated the payment of the Roman Catholic clergy; and he was also the author of several pamphlets on the events of his day. The full span of memoirs eventually appeared in three parts-three volumes covering 1817 to 1837, published in 1874, three for the period from 1837 to 1852, published in 1885, and the final two in 1887, covering 1852 to 1860. When the first part appeared in 1874 some passages caused extreme offence. The copies issued were as far as possible recalled and passages suppressed, however a copy of this original manuscript remained in the Wallace family possession until it was sold and eventually acquired by a bookseller from New York, Gabriel Wells. Wells and the Doubleday publishing house produced The Greville Diary in two volumes in 1927 however these were criticised for poor editing and containing some inaccurate statements. In 1874, when it became known that Greville's diary was going to be printed, the news caused an uproar. Queen Victoria wrote that she was "horrified and indignant at this dreadful and really scandalous book. Mr. Greville's indiscretion, indelicacy, ingratitude, betrayal of confidence and shameful disloyalty towards his Sovereign make it very important that the book should be severely censored and discredited". She also said that "The tone in which he speaks of royalty is...
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None. Very Good Indeed in Very Good jacket. A first edition of this set of the Greville diaries, including passages previously withheld from publication. With a black and white frontispiece in each, and a number of plates. Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (2 April 1794 17 January 1865) was an English diarist and an amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1819 to 1827. His father Charles Greville was a second cousin of the 1st Earl of Warwick, and his mother was Lady Charlotte Bentinck, daughter of the 3rd Duke of Portland (former leader of the Whig party and Prime Minister). In green cloth bindings with gilt title and design detailing to front boards, and clipped dust wrappers. Externally, generally smart with slight damp staining and bumping to extremities. The dust wrappers are strong with only closed tears, some wear to the extremities and some discolouration. Internally firmly bound, with pages bright and clean; a little scattered spotting and minor discolouration to the endpapers, and some spotting to the fore-edge. Very Good Indeed.
