william pitt younger (26 risultati)

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

First Edition. Introduction by A. J. P. Taylor. Pp. 224, coloured frontispiece portrait, numerous black & white illustrations (some full or double page), pictorial endpapers printed in red, genealogical tree, bibliography, index; narrow cr. 4to; maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed; text block slightly browned, book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1974. First edition. British Prime Ministers series.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Gppood. A splendid original engraved portrait. Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Excellent condition. Circa 1850 - fine portrait of William Pitt.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Posselwhite (illustratore). A fine original engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame, circa 1860 A splended opportunity to purchase an original antique engraving.

First Edition. Pp. xxvi+652, 24 plates (22 coloured in part or whole), printed endpapers, double page map, double page family tree, notes, bibliography, index; thick med. 8vo; maroon boards, spine lettered in gilt, fore-edge of upper board and both top fore-corners slightly bruised; dust wrapper, tiny bruise to bottom edge of upper board; dust wrapper book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, the text block faintly browned, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2004. First edition. *Biography of the British politician who became Prime Minister in 1783 at the age of twenty-four.

Harlow, 2000. 247 pp. Softcover.

Disbound. 2nd edition. address to the throne, approving of the answers returned to the communications from France relative to a negociation for peace. [3], 120 p.; 20.5 cm. G, removed. Lightly toned. With half-title.

A savage and bitterly-sarcastic satirical spoof epitaph, the text of which, the Liverpool Mercury reported in 1822, had been 'repeatedly published before'. Some versions are said to have included a woodcut by George Cruikshank, but the only other publication found (with a few minor variations from the present version) is in the Irish Magazine, June 1809, pp.286-287, where the author is named as 'WILKS INR.', i.e. '[John] Wilkes [sic] Junior'. Printed on one side of a 26.5 x 10 cm piece of unwatermarked wove paper. In fair condition, aged and worn, with several fold lines, and one closed tear repaired with archival tape. Titled: 'An | Inscription | for the Proposed | Monument to the Rt. Hon. W. Pitt. | Respectfully dedicated to the Subscribers to his Statue. | De Mortuis nil nisi Verum.' Sixty-seven lines of centred text, beginning: 'This Mausoleum entombs | WILLIAM PITT, | Who died January 23, 1806, aged only 47 years. | With unprecedented influence | For 23 years he was PRIME MINISTER of | The British Empire. | He possessed great Talents and transcendant | Eloquence, | But his Worth may be best estimated | "By Experience and the Evidence of Facts."' Pitt's 'achievements' are listed: 'He was the Advocate for Reform, which did not succeed. | The Opposer of the Slave Trade, which increased. | The Patron of the Irish Catholics, who were not emancipated. | To England a professed Protector, and the avowed Enemy to France. | During his Government | The Bulwarks of British Freedom were subverted, | The Ancient Nobility degraded, | The Poor additionally depressed, | The Middling Classes of Society nearly annihilated, | Popular Associations prohibited, and | The Sources of Corruption deepened and enlarged.' The epitaph continues in the same vein, including the observation that 'Two Hundred Thousand Britons' were sacrificed in '"Just and necessary Wars"'. There is a list of overthrown Britain's allies, with the comment 'Let Nations glory in such Friendship!', and France's prosperity during the period is described, with the comment 'Let Nations deprecate such Enmity!' The only groups said to have benefited during Pitt's ministry are 'The Committee of Lloyd's Coffee House, | The Collectors of Taxes, | The Purchasers of Loans, and Contractors for the | Army, | The Modern Nobility, | Lord Melville, | and | Napoleon, Emperor of France, | Enriched, ennobled, protected, and aggrandized by | "This Friend of the People!" | "This Saviour of Britain!!" | "This Protector of Europe!!!" | "This Heaven-born Minister!!!!" | "This Pilot that weather'd the Storm!!!!!"' No other copy of a work of this title, let alone this Sunderland printing, found on either WorldCat or COPAC. BBTI has Summers & Young active in Sunderland between 1800 and 1812. Copac lists three items by the firm between 1803 and 1810.

Mostly unopened. Uncut in orig. light blue boards, excellently rebacked. v.g. ESTC T111149; 4 copies in British Isles. Godwin's first published work. Godwin muses on the role of the historian in his introduction: 'much has been said of historical impartiality; and the generality seem to require it, as the first, and most indispensable quality of this branch of literature [.] Lover, as I am, of impartiality, I think it my duty, in this place, to advertise my reader, that this kind of impartiality, I abjure, and I despise.'.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 53pp. Rebound in brown cloth, gilt spine. Light scattered foxing, about near fine. Pitt's influential speech arguing for the (successful) Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Scarce. *OCLC* locates three copies. *ESTC* T58113.

Disbound. 29pp. Outlining Pitts' arguments for engaging in war with France.

Without half title or ad. leaves. Disbound. (2), 120pp. ESTC N25050. William Pitt the Younger, 1759-1806, is the youngest ever Prime Minister of Great Britain, first assuming office when only 24. He served in the role twice, from 1783-1801, and 1804-1806, dying in office at the age of 46.

Disbound. 16pp. Not in BL. Birmingham and Cambridge only on Copac. Dedicated to 'the Yeomanry of Old England'. The final three pages contain An Epitaph on the later illustrious Earl of Chatham, text printed in two columns.

Ad. on verso of final leaf. Disbound. xvi, (17)-71, (1)pp. BL, Cambridge, Senate House, NT only on Copac. Back cover ad. is for Porcupine's Works in 12 volumes. When Cobbett returned to Britain from the USA in 1800, fleeing an $8,000 judgement against him, he set up in publishing with John Morgan - a friend from Philadelphia - and named his second son John Morgan Cobbett. The partnership, publishing material supportive of the King & the Church, lasted until December 1802 when Morgan returned home and the business was sold.

4to (266 x 204mm), pp. 2; plus original blank conjunct leaf; unbound and uncut. 'No. 1342' at upper right hand corner. A decree from the Convention Nationale, which in September 1792 had succeeded the Assemblée Législative and which lasted until October 1795, declaring 'Williams Pitt, ministre du gouvernement Britannique', an enemy of the human race. A pretty pointless exercise, one would have thought, whose futility is underlined by the convention's inability to spell his name correctly.

EXCESSIVELY RARE. Apparently not present in the National Portrait Gallery collection. The portrait is on a piece of India paper roughly four and a half inches by three and a half wide, mounted on a piece of thick wove paper roughly eleven inches by eight and a half wide. The mount bears the text. Good, though somewhat grubby, and with the mount lightly creased and foxed. While Sayers is best-known as a Pittite caricaturist this image is certainly not a caricature. Taken from a charcoal drawing, it consists of a head and shoulders portrait of Pitt in a blue coat, looking to his left, his grey hair brushed untidily away from his forehead.

Without half title, sl. spotted. Disbound. (3)-24pp. Three copies on Copac: BL, Manchester, Birmingham.

Folio, 2 pp. On first leaf of bifolium, with the verso of the second leaf docketed, under the heading 'King's Warrant'. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. Headed '(Copy)', and with 'George R' in a bold hand in the top left-hand corner. Although the signature is almost certainly not in the hand of the king, the document is docketed in pencil: 'Signature of his late beloved Majesty King George III on Copy of a Warrant retained by General Saml. Townsend'. Begins (in another hand): 'Whereas We are given to understand that our Trusty and Well beloved Major General Samuel Townsend Inspector General of the Recruiting Service is set insuper in the Account of Our Right Trusty and Well beloved Counseller Richard Rigby late Paymaster General of Our Forces for the Sum of Seventeen Thousand Four Hundred Sixty Four Pounds Fourteen Shillings and Eight Pence being Money Imprested to him for carrying on the above Service from the end of the year 1778, to the 24th. day of June 1786 [.]'. The document records that the original was signed by Pitt, Eliot and Aubrey, as 'Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts', 'the Commissioners having recommended unto Us to discharge Major General Samuel Townsend from rendering any further Account of the same'.

Uncoloured engraving; trimmed with loss of imprint, mounted within a larger sheet of card, 57 x 50cm. BM 1890,0415.135. Engraved by Anthony Cardon after Henry Edridge. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

Single sheet folio broadside, oval engr. port., letterpress text within black mourning border; short tear neatly repaired at right margin. Approx. 43 x 27cm. Framed & glazed. The BM records two examples. The first (BM 1929,0416.14) is almost identical to our copy but with the correct spelling of Independent in the title. The second (BM 1917,1208.3477) includes two additional engravings to either side of the portrait. The imprint in both issues in the BM are slightly shorter in length that the present example which extends almost to the edges of the mourning border. Presumably this was an early issue, with the spelling swiftly corrected. Neither Copac or OCLC record any copies of this variant. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

Folio. pp. [4]. Old creases. Only the BL copy recorded. Pitt's speech was a rebuttal to Sinclairs proposals regarding the continuing negotiations with France and the avoidance of hostilities.

Autograph letter signed by Pitt the Younger as prime minister to his close advisor William Eden, at the height of Eden's influence as envoy to France, in which Pitt attempts to gauge potential French support for the early Abolitionist movement spearheaded by his friend and political ally William Wilberforce, and the prospect of a joint Anglo-French abolition of the trade. "You have had a letter from my friend Wilberforce, on a scheme which may appear to some people chimerical but which I really believe may with proper management be made practicable. If it can, I am sure it is an object well worth attending to and perhaps you may be able to learn the private sentiments of the French Government upon it. to Judge whether it can be carried further. I mean the idea of the two nations agreeing to discontinue the villainous traffic now carried on in Africa". 1787 saw the foundation of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and was also the year in which Wilberforce took political leadership of the Abolition movement. There is no evidence that any overtures Eden made to France for a joint anti-slave trade approach made any impression - had this letter achieved its aim, the history of transantlantic slavery would have been vastly different. Although Pitt's support for the movement to abolish slavery was unflagging throughout his tenure as prime minister, the eventual abolition of the trade would not occur until a year after his death, in 1807. In December 1785 the penal reformer and diplomatist William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland (1744-1814) was sent by Pitt the Younger to serve "as an envoy to negotiate a commercial treaty with France, a task which particularly suited Eden's expertise in matters of finance and commerce. This step inaugurated the most important and successful phase of Eden's career" (ODNB). The skill and delicacy with which he cajoled both Britain and France through the Versailles negotiations eventually resulted in the signing of the final treaty in September 1786, as well as two further commercial agreements between the countries, one to resolve the disputes between the British and French East India companies. However, Eden's peers viewed his successes as proof of his francophile leanings, and he was swiftly reassigned as ambassador to Madrid. "Following the end of his diplomatic career Auckland remained a political figure of some significance. He was still close to Pitt, and his public pronouncements were often regarded as reflecting the thinking of the prime minister. Pitt was indeed so close to Auckland and his family at this time that he came very near to marrying Auckland's daughter Eleanor Eden (1777-1851) in 1796-7 only to break off his dalliance suddenly and mysteriously, for reasons which are not fully understood to this day. Although this episode curtailed the social relationship between Auckland and Pitt they remained politically close. In 1798 Auckland was appointed by Pitt to the position of joint postmaster-general and he was one of Pitt's closest advisers on the prospective union with Ireland in the years 1798-1800" (ODNB). Single sheet, quarto (239 x 196 mm), handwritten in ink across two pages. Remains of verso guard where laid down overwritten in another hand, annotated at foot of second page in a later hand, "(To Lord Auckland.)" Browned with a few areas of discolouration or marks, tiny wear and puncture to left edge not obscuring text, else in very good condition.

Condizione: Old folds. With Mackenzie's docket "From Mr. Pitt 6 Feby. 1792. His opinion of my pamphlet.". 4to. Reading in part: ".I really cannot forbear expressing how very sincerely I feel myself obliged to the author.if its political tendency were out of the question.it would. afford me more pleasure than almost any publication I ever remember to have read." MacKenzie was known as the "Addison of the North." With Mackenzie's docket "From Mr. Pitt 6 Feby. 1792. His opinion of my pamphlet.". 4to.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

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