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Synopsis

By the late charles c. f. greville, esq. clerk of the council to these sovereigns. edited by henry reeve. a new edition. in eight volumes. (the silver library).

Item Description

EIGHT VOLUMES. 8vo. &.5 x 5.25 inches. Total pagination, 3408, average 426 pp. per volume + 2x 32 pp. publisher's classified catalogues in Vols. V and VI. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt, with gilt borders on front boards and blocks at tail of spines, which are sunned. Patterned endpapers. A little wear to extremities and occasional scattered foxing, but otherwise a very good set. Signatures on free endpapers, mostly in pencil. Vol. I illustrated by portrait frontispiece. The diaries of Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794-1865), sportsman and Clerk of the Council in ordinary, 1821-59, provide an insider's view of the private lives of politicians and people in society for the period 1818-59. Publication of the first volume in 1874 (the other parts followed in 1885 and 1887) caused a controversy and was condemned by Queen Victoria and Benjamin Disraeli downwards as an outrageous breach of confidence and a scandalous critique of persons in high authority. It had to withdrawn and parts of it suppressed before it could be reissued. Greville had entrusted publication to his subordinate, the Whig writer, Henry Reeve (1813-95), Clerk of Appeal from 1837 and then Registrar of the Judiciary Committee of the Privy Council, who edited the Memoirs. THIS IS A LARGE AND HEAVY SET WHICH WILL INCUR SHIPPING COSTS ABOVE THE DEFAULT RATE QUOTED BY ABE. PLEASE CONTACT US DIRECTLY IF YOU WOULD LIKE A QUOTATION FOR POSTAGE BEFORE ORDERING