Lord Macaulay — William Pitt, Atterbury

Bernard Tauchnitz , Leipzig , 1860. First edition. Leather. A very scarce work containing two biographies by Lord Macaulay, smartly bound in half morocco. The first edition of this very scarce work. Published as part of Leipzig's Tauchnitz editions, under their Collection of British Authors series (Vol. 507). Bound in half morocco with marble boards. This work contains two biographies. The first is of William Pitt the Younger, who served initially as the youngest and last Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800. He then preceded himself as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1804 until his death in 1806.Together with a study of Francis Atterbury, a politician, bishop and man of letters. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he was banished from the ministries for communicating with the Old Pretender in the Atterbury Plot. Insights to these figures' inheritance, education and rise within their respected fields is detailed here by Thomas Babington Macaulay, a Whig politician who is best known for his History of England series. In half morocco with marble boards. Externally, smart with slight rubbing to the extremities, heaviest to the head of the spine. Light marks to the boards. Bookplate of one Claud E. Stracey to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Ink inscriptions to first title page and the odd inscription throughout. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .