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The Greville Diary: Including Passages Hitherto Withheld from Publication (2 Volume Set)
by Wilson, Philip Whitwell (editor)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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CEDAR GROVE, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 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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- Seller
- Kayleighbug Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 012339
- Title
- The Greville Diary: Including Passages Hitherto Withheld from Publication (2 Volume Set)
- Author
- Wilson, Philip Whitwell (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1927
- Weight
- 5.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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CEDAR GROVE, West Virginia
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Selling online since 1998.
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- Gilt
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- Tight
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- Rubbing
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