Junius Thought Sir Philip Francis (2 results)

Half-Leather. Condition: Good +. Author not stated but commonly attributed to Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818). Pages: 226 (Vol. 1); 259 with Index (Vol. 2). The leather covers with gilt decorated spine, have a little wear. There is some minor bumping at the corners and a short split at the the bottom right of the spine of volume 2. The text blocks are clean and tight. There is splitting to the inner hinges with no apparent loss of strength. There is some brown staining to the title page of Volume 1 and a name written small at the top of that page. The same name is written at the same place in Volume 2. The edges of the inside of the front covers of both Volumes are browned. Both title pages have some browning at the edges and there is a little loss at the the bottom right of the title page of Volume 2. The inside of the rear boards also have some browning at the edges. The size of each Volume is about 18 x 11 cms.

Uniform matching hard back binding in nineteenth century half dark green leather with wide fold-ins, the spine divided into six panels, lettered in the second and fourth, tooling to the others, dated at the foot, tea green cloth sides, all page edges gilt, pale blue and rose marble paper end sheets. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Junius was the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of political letters critical of the government of King George III to the Public Advertiser, from 21 January 1769 to 21 January 1772 as well as several other London newspapers such as the London Evening Post. The collection of private and open letters were from an anonymous polemicist (Junius) claimed by some to be Philip Francis, as well as other letters in-reply from people to whom Junius had written between 1769 and 1772. The collection was published in two volumes in 1772 by Henry Sampson Woodfall, the owner and editor of a London newspaper, the Public Advertiser. The collection includes 69 letters, 29 to the Printer of the Public Advertiser originally intended for public readership, with the remaining 40 to individuals, then made public. It included letters written by Philo Junius, who, some say, was Junius himself. Contains Engraved title pages (xl), 325; 366 pp with 15 full-page monochrome historical figure engravings. The engravings are without tissue papers and have left off-setting to the text block opposite, sun darkening of the leather down the spines. Interesting newspaper article from the 'Leeds Mercury' of April 24th 1901 concerning 'The Household of Junius'. Heavy two volume set weighing 2 kg, extra postage and insurance will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE BEFORE 1800.