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details:dimensions: letter paper,sizes variedcondition: as found, generally good, some letter sheets stiff but may be safely handled, vertical edge of three sheets singed, dark iron gall ink for the most part and otherwise fully legible, distinctive early 19th c. watermarks on two letter sheets Description:These seven (7) 1815-1849 letters were found together and most have explicit reference to members of the Miles family of New York. Some of the letters are personal and others pertain to business matters. The letters are written on blue or ivory stationery sheets, each folded to create the envelope and each envelope is addressed and most have legible postmarks. The longest and most detailed letter is dateline Hamilton, Ontario, Canada February 28, 1849 and consists of a three page business letter with a small, detailed manuscript plan (see Transcription below). The Canada letter describes a large parcel of land on the Grand River, near Hamilton by the "plank road" developed with hide tanning and wood milling facilities, a house and farm land also located along a canal. The letter writer discusses the business opportunity and market factors and forces c. 1849 in particular on the Canadian and the American side of the border. The authors, dates and recipients of the letters are interpreted as follows1/:1. letter dateline Lexington 2/ March 13th 1815 by Wyllis Miles to his sister with personal news and descriptions of honey and cakes sent for her familydimensions: 7 1/2" x 12 1/4";2. letter dateline Lexington Jan. 22, 1816 postmarked Catskill by Wyllis Miles to his sister Obedience Chaplin addressed "New York Apartment 40A(?)" asking about her daughter Lodina and telling her to get the child a doll!dimensions: 7 1/2" x 12 1/4";3. letter, c. 1834 based on the paper watermark, by H.Lawrence addressed to "Mr. C.W. Miles, Lexington Heights, Greene County, N.Y."2/and postmarked possibly Brooklyn, N.Y. regarding a bookkeeper position, the application process, timing to apply and starting salary. Please see Transcription. The paper has a watermark "Joseph Coles" and "1834" and has been transcribed below. dimensions: 12 1/2" x 7 1/2";4. letter dateline NYC (?) June 14th, 1844 from James W. Rhodes addressed to "Charles W. Miles, Big Hollow, Green County, New York",3/ inquiring how goes the tanning business; dimensions, folded sheet size 8" x 10";5. letter dateline May 6, 1848 Catskill postmarked "Catskill, NY" by H. Hill, Catskill Bank to "Charles W. Miles, Winham Centre, Greene Co. N.Y." demanding payment on a note with a dubious endorsement; dimensions: 8" x 10";6. letter dateline March 29, 1849 postmarked Williamsport PA 4/Mar 29 by S [J].B. Anthony to "Charles W. Mills [Miles], Windham Centre, Greene County, NY" concerning 8,000 acres of land and buying bark in which the letter writer has a fractional undivided interest in the "Blossburg [?] Coal region" and also consisting of good farm land with advice that he cannot sell bark but if Miles would make an offer to buy them out Anthony could seek a court order to sell his deceased brother in law's share and the interest of a third person; dimensions: folded sheet 7 1/2" x 10";7. letter dateline Hamilton 5/ 28 Feb 1849 James Parish [?] to "Mr. John W. Jacobs, Mount Vision, Asego [Otsego] County, New York" offering a large parcel of land for sale that is located in Canada on the Grand River, 14 1/2 miles on the Plank Road 6/ from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The land is developed as a large tannery-described in great detail and the site also includes a big proprietor's house, farm and other land, including timber. Please see transcription below. The paper has a watermark "A Cowan & Sons 1841" 7/ and a decorative watermark with a royal seal atop an oval within which Britannia riding the waves holds a shield and a spear.7/ These seven letters are original source material with details of personal and business life in newly established, rural towns in Greene County, New York. The letters also concern the early business life of Charles W. Miles who was a tanner for some period and may have had other business ventures including in Canada. The longest and most detailed narrative is James Parish's 1849, three- page letter from Canada in which he describes land for sale that belongs to him and his brother that was developed as a large tannery on the Grand River. This historic 1849 letter is addressed to a person living in Mount Vision, Otsego County, New York to address an inquiry of third parties. Parish identifies the site he offers for sale as located between Caledonia and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He describes Hamilton as the business center for Western Canada. This letter contains original source material about the development of commerce along the Grand River, the transit routes within the area featuring the Plank Road to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and the overland and waterway transit routes from New York City to this region of Canada. The letter is also a kind of blue print for a large tannery factory c. 1849. The author of this letter, James Parish, is himself a businessman - dry goods- and he includes financial advice to his prospective purchasers, commentary about the tariffs 8/, how to run a profitable, proper tannery manufacturing business and the relative advantages of doing business on the Canadian/American border. He seems anxious to sell his land and perhaps anticipates what eventually happened - railroads reaching Hamilton and drawing commerce away from the local canal system on which his land abuts and the Plank Road system of travel. Parish has drawn a plan in ink at the end of his letter to illustrate the site plan of the property for sale and its surroundings. He writes that he includes a map of Hamilton to assist his correspondent navigate to the site from New York [not present]. The finely drawn plan labels the elements of the tannery (vats, mill, sweathouse), the farm, out buildings, proprietor's house, wharf and natural features of the land. The site lies (on its north boundary) along the flow of the Grand River as indicated graphically with arrows, and along the south boundary by the canal where a steamboat with flags blowing in the wind is under way. A bridge to the site crosses the canal. The tannery wharf sits on the canal. The drawing is both technical and folk art. The drawing is tucked in at the bottom of the letter sheet, with a small piece of paper attached to the letter sheet margin to complete the drawing. Please see full transcription and photographs. Notes:1. spellings vary as to first names and surnames and some locales.2. Greene County, New York is bounded to the east by the Hudson River. Its county seat is Catskill. The county was created in 1800. The county web site describes the region as flatlands that rise into the Catskill Mountains. A historic note is that Catskill is also the home of Thomas Cole, artist and founder of the Hudson River School of Painting. Cole's house is a National Historic Site. The Town of Lexington (est. 1813) and of Windham are located in Greene County.3. Big Hollow is a hamlet of Windham which had a tannery in 1840. The hamlet was renamed Maplecrest in 1921 to attract tourists according to one town history.4. Williamsport, Pennsylvania is in the central part of the state, on the West Branch of the Susquehannah River, south of Buffalo and below Albany, New York. The location is approximately half way between Hamilton, Ontario and Greene County, New York.5. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada was the site of the first telegraph line in Canada strung from Hamilton to Toronto in 1846. Cholera was present in Hamilton in 1849 causing local deaths.6. The Plank Road in Hamilton passed through First Nations land and remains a controversial land ownership topic. http://www.nmanchesterhistory.org/roads-plank-road.htmlBuilding Plank Roads was part of a mid-19th c. transportation movement in both the United States and Canada before the widespread development of trains. Please see "Plank Road Fever in Antebellum America: New York origins", D. Kein and J.Majewski, UCal Transportation Center, 1994, UC Berkeley, escholarship.org.7. Alex. Cowan & Sons is a storied Scottish paper maker. The two watermarks identify his papermill8. The year 1849 was in the midst of "Reciprocity" debates in Canada and the United States and Great Britain on the subject of tariffs. 5c38a9210e03b.pdfPlease see D.C. Master, "Reciprocity 1846-1911."Transcriptions:1. James Parish letter, February 28, 1849, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada "Hamilton 28 Feb 1849My Dear Sir I am in receipt of your letter of 13 Dec. last which was sent to me at Guelph where I have been on business. The reason of my not receiving it until a few days ago was that as it was not paid it had lain in the post office at Lewistown & did not know of it until it was advertized on this side when a friend sent for it & I got it a few days ago. the day before yesterday I returned & yesterday I received your last letter of 22 inst and I now reply to both today for the information of your friends I shall describe the farming property as briefly as possible it is situated 2 1/2 miles below Caledonia on the Grand River & 14 1/2 miles from Hamilton by the Plank road. The property is Lease hold from the Grand River Navigation Company (a charter company) on the same terms viz 21 years lease 3 years of which are expired and renewable on the same terms as the Company take the Buildings & improvements at a valuation. the same are the terms on which all the Grist saw(s) & other mills & operations on the river hold the rest of the water power & 4 acres of land is $60 sixty dollars per acre = annum (?) I have appended a ground plan of the property which will make you understand better the description of the property which consists the main building 180 feet long by 43.6 at one end & 36.4 on the other the newest yard is 100 feet long containing 60 Handlers (?) put down by NYork State new in the best watertight manner They are wide enough to take 2 hides & ______ feet deep [as] upon they will each hold 100 hides the other yard is not as large containing 8 double vats 13.6 x 5.10 a partition dividing each int to Handlers 6 1/2 feet deep [?] 1 work 10 x 10 with 2 large spenders in the Beam house there are 8 large vats to be used on soaks linvers [?] or baits [?] about 6 feet deep the sweat house is large and is divided into 6 compartments communicating with the Beam house [?] neither them is a commenced [of] any amount of water as well as _________[drawing?] the Hide Bark Rolling Mills & pumping in feet [?] power to command up the whole Grand River, on the second floor there Hide room Bark Mill Heaters [?] Rolling room, drying rooms large currying shop leather room & office with extensions & 1 lofts above the whole with every facility for carrying on a very large business. The present Heaters are Only temporary & would have been rebuilt since now having all the material seasoned for the transfer but thought the cash for the new proprietor to build them secondary to his own ideas the plank & Timber being well made for the purpose. along the front of the premises [next sheet] there is an excellent wharf on the canal which stands the Bark Sheds for storing the Bark & which quite close to the Bark Mill There are also large dwelling house for work men There is a large and comfortable furnished dwelling house for the proprietor capable of accommodating a large family with garden orchard and all the remainder of the land in pasture around it. I have included a map of Hamilton & neighborhood in case you may not have map convenient so that you may see & understand the great advantages the property has for a large & lucrative home business in the surrounding country you can get any amount [?] of country Beef Hides at Bradford @ 3 or 3 3/4 cents down the river landed on your own wharf at a nearly nominal freight in fact you will have the command of the whole surrounding county for slaughter hides there being no farming in the whole region out of Hamilton from which you are only 2 hours drive on the plank road where you will find a large market for leather there is water carriage from New York City via Buffalo to you a corridor for your Spanish [?] hides by canal via Chipewa or Port Robison [?] & Danville [?] you are aware & presume that the Duty on raw farming the freight on the Hills [?] from Buffalo by skow into a little more than the same Back in Bark materials is reduced to 1 percent consequently the manufacturer by superiour & active persons in this province or the American principle offers every encouragement giving them the whole protecting duty the scheme [?] to _______ on Bark has hitherto been only 75 cents per cord from Buffalo when it ranged from $1.75 to 2.35 to the tannery and I have little doubt but by compacting it can be got on for 50 cents The reason is such cheap carriage is this along the Whole river there are a great number of saw mills which require a great number of skows to carry the lumber to Buffalo and as the skows are coming to our own doors & have no loading back they will bring it for anything if they can sell [?] as much as will pay a little of the wages of the hands I can furnish you with a large quantity of Standing Hemlock Bark as marked on the map with easy teaming distance on the Plank Road 15 miles from Caledonia I suppose I can furnish 600 or 800 cords which I suppose I would let you have @ 75 cents & you can come get from others as much as you require Be______ on the farmers in Hamilton gets f rom the _________[?] & has to pay prices in consequence of his greater distance you can always have Bark cheaper than the Hamilton farmers There is another great advantage to be derived being the cheapness [?] firewood I have hitherto paid for oak laid down at the Heaters 75 cents per cord for pine 50 cents and from attached [?] McKemackers [?] M. Kerachers Mills to show you that you can get plenty of slabs as many in fact as you require on the outside of your farm as lay 60 foot distance from the farming building & which you can get cut at a low rate say 12 for 20 cents, the millers dare not put the slabs into the river it being Company tolaws [?] for saving the navigation & they being obliged to burn or carry them off the premises will be glad to have this cut up and carried off for nothing. the local situation is excellent having access either up or down the river for putting your hides or sending your leather the different[new sheet of paper] towns on its banks and on the plank road connecting the two takes from Hamilton to Dover proper at Caledonia you have every facility by good road and being so convenient to Hamilton, Manuscript, 1815-1849, 0, 863 letters, 2569 manuscript pp., dated 1910-1959, with 317 pieces of ephemera, including postcards, telegrams, calling cards, invitations, printed material, documents, manuscript notes, newspaper clippings, greeting cards, used envelopes, etc. The correspondence in this collection includes, but is not limited to the following: 223 incoming letters to Lieut. Alexander Dennett, father of Lieut. Comdr. Ralph E. Dennett, many from his son Ralph; 40 outgoing letters of Elizabeth Dennett, wife of Ralph E. Dennett to her father-in-law Alexander Dennett; 235 outgoing letters of Ralph E. Dennett mostly to his father or sons, and 307 incoming letters to him; Lieut. Armistead Dennett, son of Ralph E. Dennett, 45 outgoing letters and 8 incoming letters, mostly to his father, or brother; William Dennett, brother of Ralph E. Dennett, 12 outgoing letters to their father Alexander Dennett; and Midshipman William A. Dennett, son of Ralph E. Dennett, 32, outgoing letters and 284 incoming letters, many from his father and brother, as well as friends and associates. The remaining letters and many of the incoming letters to the Dennett's are written to and from family members, friends, or associates of the Dennett family, including Louise Howard Dennett, wife of Armistead Dennett, and her mother Jill Noble Howard, of Round Bay, Maryland; "Bunny" Daigle Dennett, wife of William A. Dennett, and her mother Mrs. L. Daigle, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Dr. John Dennett, of Phoenix, Arizona, an uncle; as well as friends of William A. Dennett: Edmond C. Tarbold, Lydia Sawyer, Florence A. Paul, and Lois S. Gimmi; and friends of Ralph E. Dennett: Alberta, Carolyn, and Charlie.Dennett Family of Kittery, York County, Maine Alexander Dennett was born 10 November 1811, at Kittery, Maine and died 6 May 1889, in Kittery. He was a farmer and was educated in the common schools. At the age of 19 he moved to York, Maine, where he eventually conducted a general store and owned coasting vessels. He moved back to Kittery and lived on the ancestral homestead until his death. During the Civil War he was appointed inspector of timber at the navy yard. Politically, he was a Whig in early life, a Republican afterward. He was a trial justice for many years; represented his district in the legislature in 1849-50-51; and was a delegate to the convention when the Free Soil and Whig Parties fused when the Republican Party was organized. Alexander was frequently moderator of town meetings and selectman of the town. He was active in good works and interested in the great questions of the day, and an enthusiastic supporter the anti-slavery and temperance movements. He was a member of the Sons of Temperance, and was active in the Methodist Episcopal Church, being a charter member of the Second Methodist Episcopal church, of Kittery. He married Mary Kingsbury Remick (1819-1878) and together they had at least six children: Ellen Miriam, Elizabeth, John, Sarah, Mary Alice, and Alexander, who was the father of Ralph Earle Dennett. Lieut. Alexander Dennett, of the U.S. Coast Guard, was born 13 April 1853, at York Village, York, Maine, and died 24 December 1934, at Kittery, Maine. His son Ralph was the only heir and executor. Alexander was educated in the public schools, Eliot Academy and various private schools. In 1878 he entered the U. S. Revenue Cutter Service as second assistant engineer and was stationed in New York at the office of Consulting Engineer Charles E. Emery. He and his wife resided at a number of locations during his naval career lived in Boston, Portland, Bucksport, Bath, Castine, Eastport, Mobile, Baltimore, and Somerville, while Dennett was attached to vessels (William H. Crawford, John A. Dix, Thomas Ewing, Albert Gallatin, Woodbury) with headquarters at or near these places. He later made first assistant engineer in 1890 and served on the Hannibal Hamlin in 1893. He continued on this ship with the Coast Guard until 1895, when he retired from active labor, making his home at Kittery and Thomasville, Georgia. He was a Republican in politics, and had been a member of the school committee for a number of years and superintendent of schools. He was a prominent member of the Second Christian church. He married first in 1883 to Sarah Eva Paul (1856-1899), daughter of Warrington and Sarah A.E. Paul. Together Lieut. Alexander and his wife Sarah had at least three children, William A. Dennett (1886- ), Ralph Earle Dennett (1891- ) and Mary Elizabeth Dennett (1894- ) Sara Eva Paul Dennett died on 9 June 1899. After the death of his first wife he was married a second time to Josephine E. Cox, only daughter of Carpenter Joseph Cox, U.S.N. (retired). Josephine died in 1917, Alexander outlived both his wives. He died in 1934. William A. Dennett (1885-1911), Alexander Dennett's oldest son, graduated Cornell University in 1907 in the mechanical engineering course and died at Kittery, MEof typhoid fever. He worked at Holyoke and New York City, for the Santa Fe Sugar Plantation, San Pedro de Maconic San Domingo. Alexander's fourth child, Mary Elizabeth Dennett (1893-1895), died young of congestion of the lungs. Lieut. Alexander Dennett's third child was Lt. Comdr. Ralph Earle Dennett, USN. He was born 30 July 1890, at Kittery, York County, Maine, and died in February 1986. Prior to entering the Naval Academy he attended Kittery High School and the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He attended the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. He lived at Upper Darby, Pennsylvania at the time of the 1930 Census. When his wife Elizabeth died in 1943 he was stationed at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, a position he had held since 1939. Ralph Earle Dennett married Elizabeth Armistead. She was born 3 September 1889, in Virginia. The couple married 4 December 1920, at Washington, D.C. Elizabeth died 16 May 1943. Together Ralph and his wife Elizabeth had at least two children: Armistead Dennett and William A. Dennett. After the death of his wife, Ralph married a second time to Josephine Cox, daughter of Joseph Cox and Joanna Hurd. They married 28 August 1901 at Kittery, Maine. Ralph Dennett's oldest son was Lieut. Comdr. Armistead Dennett. He was born about 1922; attended Kittery Schools, and Portsmouth High School; and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland in 1941, where he took postgraduate course in ordnance. He served aboard the USS Benson, two years in the Mediterranean on destroyers, and was a veteran WWII, serving in the Pacific theater on a destroyer that was hit by a kamikaze. He later became Commander on several ships, including the USS Wallace L. Lind (DD-703) 1958-1960. Armistead Dennett married Louise Howard. Armistead and his wife had at least one child, a daughter Sarah Dennett, who was born in May 1948. Ralph Dennett's second son was William A. Dennett. He was born in 1928 and died on 5 January 2013. Like most of the men in his family he joined the Navy and reached the rank of midshipman 4th class. He graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1944, and attended the University of New Hampshire prior to entering the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Class of 1949. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1951, with degrees in both naval architecture and marine engineering. After graduation, he was employed by Newport News Shipbuilding, and later retired from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 1987 after 37 years of government service. He was a member of the Kittery Point Yacht Club, the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and several other professional organizations. He enjoyed sailing locally, as well as having substantial blue water experience, participating in both the Monhegan and Bermuda races. He was an expert navigator, well skilled in celestial navigation. William A. Dennett married Mary Irene "Bunny" Daigle, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire on 9 September 1950, in Maine. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard C. Daigle. Bunny attended the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. Together they had at least one son, John A. Dennett. Another Dennett family member who wrote some of the letters in this collection is Dr. John Dennett. He was born in 1869 in Maine. He was a first cousin of Ralph E. Dennett (son of his father's brother Capt. John Dennett, U.S.C.G.). He attended Harvard University and Harvard Medical College. After medical training he worked at Boston General Hospital until developing tuberculosis. In an attempt to regain his health he first moved to Santa Fe then arrived in Phoenix in 1895. Finding initial work as doctor at the Congress Mine he remained there until 1905 when it closed. On August 20, 1902 he married Louise Gage (niece of the owner of the Congress Mine). After work with the Congress Mine Dennett moved to the Silverbell Mine west of Tucson where he worked until 1910 when the family moved to Phoenix. After the move to Phoenix Dr. Dennett stopped practicing medicine and entered business. He became the manager for a creamery [Hassayampa Creamery] located at 5th Ave and Jackson St. and later became involved in the manufacturing of evaporated milk. Between 1911 and 1923 both Dr. and Mrs. Dennett were active in business and social activities in Phoenix. Dr. Dennett was president of the Rotary Club, active with the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, and local Republican Party politics. He died in San Diego, California on October 17, 1957 at the age of 88.Sample Letters: Ralph Earle Dennett wrote his father Alexander Dennett 162 letters between the years 1909 and 1931. The early letters show Ralph attending school at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland and received his first command during WWI. He writes his father about the academy, and life at the academy, and his activities there, when he goes out on ships for exercises. He also writes about his various ports of call, and the various ships he is assigned to, and what he is allowed to tell that the censors won't scrub:"USS Washington, Hampton Rds., January 2, 1912Dear Mother and Dad - Tomorrow at ten we clear the harbor for another sea trip of uncertain duration, they don't have mail boxes at sea, the'fore I write while I may. The Admiral expects to take the rest of the little flock with him and join the fleet 400 miles at sea, or thereabouts, and then we're all going to play horse for little while, with the Red Fleet and the Blue Fleet, - really a very interesting thing if you can get inside dope on what's going on, the only one I really even savvied was the one we were working on when we left Newport last, and bad weather bused that up. Later on in the month, about 21, the gallant Fifth (Seems I never get away from 5th, 5th Company, 5th Division, etc) is to go to Key West for the celebration. What celebration I know not, just a celebration that's all. I haven't seen an up to date paper since we left the Navy Yard four days ago, Old Point is a tiresome sort of a joint at this time of year, you can't get your finger on the pulse of affairs down here, it doesn't belong the main arterial system of the country. There's life in it still, but it's all fungus growth - rooky army lieutenants (coast artillery school) or "incubators" and their would be or is sweet hearts. Besides Hampton Rds is such a dreary windy place to anchor, it hasn't the slightest suggestion of coziness about it but instead the old ship is yawed about in the tide, the shore in the dim distance all around the horizon. If you ever sat in a big draughty desolate unfurnished room you can get an idea of Hampton Rds at this time of year. All the time you have the feeling of being somewhere and yet no where. Today has been a very enjoyable day for all; we started coaling at day break and finished about 4 p.m., with intermissions for breakfast and lunch, having increased our coal supply by 1600 tons. There's a certain exhilaration that the crew takes on when performing useful work that makes everybody happy. I imagine the novelty would soon wear off, if we had to do it every day tho. After leaving Key West the Fifth is expected to arrive sooner or later at Havana, to aid in disposing of the wreck of the Maine if she is then ready. Altogether we have a very pleasant outlook for the coming routes and if our plans are not changed we may have a chance to laugh up our sleeves at the boys who have to spend their time at Guantanamo. "Fat" Hicks has fully clinched his job in the Army, but he missed connection in getting his orders, probably much to Fats disgust. He wanted to be detailed to Fort Riley and run down to Kansas City occasionally to see the girls and perhaps "land" a good one among the latter who had plenty of cash in her jeans, but he got a jack-ass mountain paltry out in Fort Russell, Wyo....Hoping this will find you well, I am your affectionate son, Ralph Dennett""March 8, 1918 [New York, NY]My dear Dad, My attention has been temporarily turned away from the complication of affairs at home by the passing demand which have been made on my time and thought and shoe leather since I arrived in New York,, but I have during the lapses of evening after all the various naval Hqtrs have done up their business, had some chance to think things over, I'll come back to that later. The change in my own affairs have reached the advanced stage of completion where I am now, after two days of toilsome "reporting" back and forth between 280 Broadway and City Park, Bklyn, sometimes alone and most of the time with my predecessor, finally installed aboard the "New York" as the com'dg officer of her Armed Guard detachment. From the face of it, it looks like a most excellent billet. Tho I have been aboard the ship only once for a few minutes, she looks like a very fine lady to me and I'm glad I got the job. "Stitchy" Paine my pred. was loathe to give it up. Said he'd like to stay aboard for the period of the war. Can't find out why they relieved him. Probably too much rank. He was 1908. Tomorrow I shall take a small share of my household goods aboard for the trip and the rest I shall probably store here in New York somewhere. With all the truck you have to handle just now I shall not send it home, besides I might need some of the stuff when I get back.... My ship sails Tuesday, carrying passengers, mail and cargo. She is fast and therefore safe. I don't think you need give yourself any worry about me at all, Quarters are comfortable, and Paine tells me that the officers are congenial. I have a good titled second, a lieutenant, and 44 men. During the past two days I have worn out my feet and my change pocket hiking and subbing around between different offices of which there are three, besides the ship. All in different parts of the city... My voyage will last about three weeks if you have need of any of that money of mine in the York Bank and can get, 0, Lisbon, Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1992.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (30.5 x 21.3 cm.), publisher's tan sheep, spine with raised bands in five compartments, decorated in blind, crimson leather lettering piece in second compartment from head, gilt short-title and date, covers also decorated in blind, pictorial endleaves. Profusely illustrated in color. As new. 55 pp., (1), 19, 92, 1 blank, (1) ll. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION, one of a small but unspecified number of special copies in a publisher's leather binding. Magnificently produced full-color facsimile of the original manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Besides much other data, it includes an illustrated relation of the India fleets, from that of Vasco da Gama (1497-1499) until the voyage of D. Jorge de Sousa (1563). Only two manuscripts with this sort of illustration are known to exist: the other one, the "Livro das Armadas" in the Academia de Ciências, Lisbon, covers the period 1497 to 1567, but lacks the fleet of 1517.The Morgan manuscript consists, effectively, of three parts. Part I contains a group of texts, copied no doubt by order of Lisuarte de Abreu, including a diary of the voyage of the nau Rainha from Lisbon to Goa in the fleet commanded by D. Constantino de Bragança in 1558. D. Constantino paused for 18 days in Mozambique, during which time he sent a messenger-ship to Sofala, mainly to obtain information about Turkish movements. Lisuarte de Abreu was a member of this mission. In the same part of the manuscript is another description of the same voyage, this time in the form of a "relation." There are also copies of various letters and documents of the period.Part II is a list of the governors and viceroys of India to 1558, with unusually bold and striking full-page color portraits of these officials.Part III, perhaps the best-known part, contains color representations of the ships that made up the various fleets, with the names of the captains in almost every case. There are also illustrations of naval battles. This part of the manuscript was made by order of the governor Jorge Cabral, in 1550, but the illustrator continued his work up to the 1563 fleet, and included naval engagements, especially those led by D. Fernando de Monroy and D. Diogo de Noronha against Turkish galleys. Several of the fleets stopped in Brazil on the outward voyage, beginning with that of Pedro Alvares Cabral in 1500, making this a crucial document for the early history of that country. The late Professor Luís de Albuquerque provided an introduction (pp. 11-31), which is followed by Maria Luísa Esteves' transcription of the text (pp. 33-55). ***, Lisbon, Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1992., 0, London: Society For Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge / Chapman And Hall, 1842. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Xii, 684; 645-661 (Index), 662-663 (Errata And Notes) (Pagination Duplicated). Title Page Indicates Full Title And 1842 Date But Does Not Indicate The Author's Name. Three Quarter Morocco, Four Bands, Elaborately Gilt In All Compartments, Matching Marbled Endpapers, And Turns. One Volume Edition; Also Issued In Two Volumes, And Brougham Followed With Two More Volumes Later. Near Fine, Slight Rubbing. Henry Peter Brougham, 1St Baron Brougham And Vaux (1778 - 1868) Helped Found The Edinburgh Review In 1802, And Quickly Became Known As Its Foremost Contributor, With Articles On Everything Including Science, Politics, Colonial Policy, Literature, Poetry, Surgery, Mathematics And The Fine Arts. He Published Several Scientific Papers Through The Royal Society, Notably On Light And Colors And On Prisms, And At The Age Of Only 25 Was Elected A Fellow, Although His Work Was Later Found To Be Remarkably Incompetent. In 1810 He Was Member Of Parliament Asa Whig, And Then Represented A Number Of Constituencies, Notably Advocating Education For The Poor, Until Becoming A Peer In 1834. In 1826 Brougham, Along With Wellington, Was One Of The Clients And Lovers Named In The Notorious Memoirs Of Harriette Wilson, But Brougham Paid And Extorted Fee And Secured His Anonymity. Brougham Won Popular Renown For Helping Defeat The 1820 Pains And Penalties Bill, An Attempt By The Widely Disliked George Iv To Annul His Marriage To Caroline Of Brunswick. He Became An Advocate Of Liberal Causes Including Abolition Of The Slave Trade, Free Trade And Parliamentary Reform. Appointed Lord Chancellor In 1830, He Made A Number Of Reforms Intended To Speed Up Legal Cases And Established The Central Criminal Court. The Highlights Of Brougham's Time In Government Were Passing The 1832 Reform Act And 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, But He Was Also Seen As Dangerous, Unreliable And Arrogant. Charles Greville, Who Was Clerk Of The Privy Council For 35 Years, Recorded His "Genius And Eloquence" Was Marred By "Unprincipled And Execrable Judgement." Brougham Was Never To Hold Office Again. However, For More Than Thirty Years After His Fall He Continued To Take An Active Part In The Judicial Business Of The House Of Lords, And In Its Debates, Turning Fiercely Against His Former Political Associates, But Continuing His Efforts On Behalf Of Reform Of Various Kinds. He Also Devoted Much Of His Time To Writing. He Had Continued To Contribute To The Edinburgh Review, The Best Of His Writings Being Subsequently Published As Historical Sketches Of Statesmen Who Flourished In The Time Of George Iii. In 1834, He Was Elected A Foreign Member Of The Royal Swedish Academy Of Sciences. In 1837, Brougham Presented A Bill For Public Education, Arguing That "It Cannot Be Doubted That Some Legislative Effort Must At Length Be Made To Remove From This Country The Opprobrium Of Having Done Less For The Education Of The People Than Any Of The More Civilized Nations On Earth". In 1838, After News Came Up Of British Colonies Where Emancipation Of The Slaves Was Obstructed Or Where The Ex-Slaves Were Being Badly Treated And Discriminated Against, Lord Brougham Stated In The House Of Lords: "The Slave . Is As Fit For His Freedom As Any English Peasant, Aye, Or Any Lord Whom I Now Address. I Demand His Rights; I Demand His Liberty Without Stint. . I Demand That Your Brother Be No Longer Trampled Upon As Your Slave". He Helped Establish The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge And Also University College London, As Well As Holding A Number Of Academic Posts, Including Rector, University Of Edinburgh. In Later Years He Spent Much Of His Time In The French City Of Cannes, Making It A Popular Resort For The British Upper-Classes. Brougham's Political Philosophy Was Included On The Cambridge Syllabus For History And Political Philosophy, Where It Was Considered Among The Major Works On The Topic., Society For Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge / Chapman And Hall, 1842, 4<

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Book design by Albert Angus Turbayne, a master of art nouveau book design . . this example is cited in many bibliographies on art nouveau bindings!!!.One of the most important and beauti… More...

Book design by Albert Angus Turbayne, a master of art nouveau book design . . this example is cited in many bibliographies on art nouveau bindings!!!.One of the most important and beautiful Art Nouveau bookbinding designs ever brought to the late Victorian /Art Nouveau period!! Most bibliographies of the Art Nouveau / Pre-Raphaelite period use this book as the epitomy of the book craft of that period. Most collectors of Posters and Maitres De L'Affiche etc have seen images of this in reference works, but most have never seen an original in its shining book form, except in private collections ... Few were issued in this rare art nouveau form, and most that are seen today are in poor condition... This one is very good!!Famous among his contemporaries, and known principally for the 'Peacock edition' produced by Macmillan and Co. in the 1890s, particalary the edition of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice. Turbayne was hailed by critics as a 'genius.Published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1896. First Edition. Hardback, 8vo, stunning decorative covers by Albert Angus Turbayne. Blue cloth with a high, bright gilt peacock binding design. Illustrated by H.R. MillarA very rare volume indeed with no other copies available anywhere at the time of listing this Turbayne peacock binding. A real collectors item. Most in private collections or universities and art institutes. A chance in a million to own a copy in this condition!!CONDITIONIn very good condition. The cloth binding remains is good condition (see images provided). Endpapers good and all contents present. Little yellowing to title page and to the tissue gaurd that protects the frontispiece. For a full condition report please ask. Very good condition!------------------------------------------------------------------------Albert Angus Turbayne(18661940) was one of the most distinguished binding designers of the final decade of the nineteenth century, and worked in several styles. Some of his commissions took the form of elaborately tooled bindings in leather which were directed at the expensive tastes, while others, and those which have still have currency, were trade bindings for the modest (or middle-class) pocket.Often linked to the Art and Crafts designs of William Morris, and credited as one of those who sought to improve public taste by promoting work of the highest quality, he is also viewed as a sophisticated proponent of Art Nouveau, whose bindings bear comparison with those of Laurence Housman and Charles Ricketts. Framed by Morris's Kelmscott Press and the extravagance of Aubrey Beardsley, Turbayne occupies a complex position within the discourse of Victorian book design.Famous among his contemporaries, and known principally for the 'Peacock edition' produced by Macmillan and Co. in the 1890s, Turbayne was hailed by critics as a 'genius' (J.S.R., p. 213). H. Orrinsmith, the art director of Burns and Co., described him in 1898 as a designer of exceptional ability, praising his bindings as those which 'come nearest to perfection' (Haslam, p.73). Other eulogies followed. Favourable reviews appeared in The Artist and The Sketch, The Inland Printer, The Art Journal and elsewhere, and his name was featured a selling point in advertisements for each new publication. This was an important development in a period when binding designers were mainly anonymous, and Turbayne's achievements were promoted on both sides of the Atlantic. Impressive when placed on the shelf, it is quite likely that his books were purchased for the beauty of his covers rather than their contents; working within a long Victorian tradition, Turbayne's editions were objects to be seen, not read, a fact attested by the unusually good condition of most of the surviving copies.Their status as fine art was often remarked and their value as artefacts was acknowledged in 1900, when Turbayne won third prize (in the form of a bronze medal) in the book binding competition at the Exposition Universelle in Paris; he continued to design cloth covers in the early part of the twentieth century. His reputation has endured into our own time, and features in every account of the period. Yet Turbayne's life and work have never been the subject of a detailed monograph. Only basic facts about his circumstances and career can be recovered, and the following sections are at the time of writing (2014) the most complete account of his career and achievements.Life and workBorn in Boston, Mass., on 3 May 1866, Turbayne is usually listed as an American. However, most of his life was spent elsewhere. He went to school in Canada in 1881 and moved to England in the early 1890s, living principally in Bedford Park, London, and in the south-east. In 1911 he was resident in Sandown, a quiet seaside resort on the Isle of Wight, although he seems to have had houses both here and in the capital. He died in London on 29 April 1940, in the opening year of the Second World War. It is not known if he became a British citizen, but his connection with the United Kingdom was motivated by much more than the need to pursue employment. His family background was essentially British rather than American, and he never returned to his country of birth.His upbringing appears to have been comfortable, although his background was working rather than middle-class; his father was employed in a blue-collar job as a machinist working in a factory or workshop, and the family's standard of living must have been modest. His father died in 1877 and after his passing, Turbayne, one of several children, was brought up by his mother. This straitened background may have meant that he had a limited education. Aged fifteen (in 1881) he was sent to Canada to be educated in Coburg, Ontario, where he was joined by the rest of the family in 1886. It is not known what school he attended. It has been claimed that he was a student at Trinity College School at nearby Port Hope, which was set up in 1865 and was (and is) the most prestigious institution in the area; yet a search of the school archive there draws a blank. Nor is it true that he attended Toronto University. However it is possible that he was enrolled at Victoria College in Coburg, an establishment set up as a Methodist school in 1829 and from 1842 as a university conferring its own degrees in a range of subjects. Turbayne may have studied here, both as a grammar school pupil with a curriculum based on the British model of the time, which stressed classical learning and as an undergraduate; perhaps he won scholarships and bursaries to cover his fees; perhaps he took an Arts degree. The dissolution of the college in 1892 means that only fragmentary records survive (now held in the archives at Trent University), and Turbayne's time at Victoria, if there is any at all, remains obscure. It is likely, however, that after leaving school he trained or worked as an intern in a local printers' workshop. Here he acquired the technical skills of a graphic artist, with an expertise in lithography.He practiced either for this unknown institution or as a free-lance. His early work was of the jobbing variety, with an emphasis on graphic advertisements for the local press. One of these includes an undated promotional flyer for the Toronto Daily and Weekly Mail in which business people are encouraged to advertise in these periodicals. Drawing on the metaphor of the Canadian wheat fields, one caption urges investors to 'Sow in the Mail and reap a harvest in business'. This sentiment is dutifully supported by Turbayne's imagery of stalks of wheat, conveying a notion of rural innocence that seems strangely at odds with the practicalities of the hard sell (Toronto Public Library).These commissions were executed in the mid and late 80s, and in 1890 Turbayne relocated to England. Little is known of his work from the earlier part of the nineties, but in 1898 he was appointed by the London County Council School of Photoengraving and Lithography (known as the 'Bolt Court School') as a teacher (or 'demonstrator') of graphic design. He continued here until 1920, a continuity suggesting conservatism. Yet Turbayne was an inventive and ambitious character, and his activities from the end of the century to the early 1900s included numerous other ventures as well.In addition to working for the Council he set up The Carlton Club, which, as Sybille Pantazzi has noted, became one of the largest studios of commercial art in London. Housed at number 108, Fleet Street, he ran the Club in business partnerships with his fellow Canadian émigrés, William Wallace, Norman Price and A. A Martin. These colleagues were former members of the Toronto Art Students' League, and it is possible Turbayne had been a member too. From the end of the nineties until 1907 (when it was formally dissolved), The Carlton Club operated as business servicing diverse commissions, producing everything from advertising to visiting cards, bookmarks, book-plates, certificates and anything else that could be serviced. Turbayne specialized in decorative lettering, initials and motifs, publishing two books, Monographs and Ciphers and Alphabets and Numerals, in which he displayed his designs and those of his associates. These were partly Morrisonian in the manner of The Kelmscott Press, and always neo-medieval or Renaissance in style. Turbayne drew inspiration from typefaces and decorative head and tailpieces in incunabula, and his intricate letters and monograms were informed, as the artist notes in the introduction to Monograms, with the 'experience of many years of actual work' (p.ix).At the same time he was producing a variety of book-cases and designs for leather bindings; both types were exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Exhibitions in London, and (as noted in the previous section) his leather pieces were acclaimed at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. Turbayne continued to design books into the twentieth century, although his most accomplished work was produced before 1910. The facts of his life are otherwise fairly conventional; twice married, with two children, his personal circumstances remain obscure, only mapped in his very considerable achievements as a graphic designer and especially in his work as a designer of bindings.Turbayne as book binding designerIn 1900 Turbayne was commissioned in by The Oxford University Press to design a series of leather bindings for editions of Shakespeare, Milton and Spenser. Heavily tooled in gilt, and reminiscent of medieval bindings while also embodying the decorative values of their period, these books were offered as luxurious products for an elite audience. The publisher's aim was to challenge the dominance of the Kelmscott Press, using the Exposition Universelle in Paris (1900) as a showcase. Turbayne's items won a third prize and were lauded as prime examples of bespoke design, the embodiment of Arts and Crafts expertise. Encomia appeared in several periodicals and Turbayne was viewed at that moment as one of the most influential binders in the field. The reaction is typified by a long review (by 'J.S.R.') in The Artist, which describes Turbayne in extravagant terms and goes on to offer a detailed analysis of his combination of intricate design and devoted craftsmanship (pp.21217). Turbayne, the critic observes, is a master-practitioner:Mr Turbayne's genius and long experience in the art of book decoration eminently fits him for such an important work. [The designs] are from his own pencil; and he has, from first to last, supervised every detail of the production of each exhibit with the most loving and minute attention, which, perhaps, is only to be adequately understood and appreciated by art-workers themselves [pp.212213].The critic also credits him with the invention of the tools that produced such fine results despite the fact that the making itself, the cutting, shaping, and gilding, would have been done by a professional bookbinder and not by the artist (p.217). That aside, the Paris books consolidated Turbayne's reputation as an Arts and Crafts designer, whose bindings had earlier been exhibited, as examples of this style and type of production, at several exhibitions in London. His position as an important figure working in this idiom is widely recognized, and in a recent study (2102) Malcolm Haslam places him in the company of international practitioners in this field.Turbayne's connection with this style was nevertheless only one aspect of his extended practice. Some of his activity was directed at the production of Kelmscott-style artefacts, but his work is most characteristically embodied in his trade bindings for a large general audience. These books are markedly different from his luxury editions: issued for a few shillings, and published by mainstream mass-producers such as Macmillan, they take the form of gilt designs on cloth bindings in the manner of those offered by Hugh Thomson and others servicing the gift-market of the 1890s. What is interesting, moreover, is the way in which Turbayne shifts idiom: the Arts and Crafts books are informed with Morris's Aesthetics, but his popular editions are far more radical, casting off the calculated anachronisms of the Kelmscott Press and putting in their place a dazzling version of Art Nouveau, the visual language of contemporary visual culture. Haslam does not differentiate these books from those working within the Guild style, but their ambience and style owes far more to Beardsley and Ricketts than to Morris or Cobden-Sanderson. Usually embellished with illustrations by artists such as Hugh Thomas and F. H. Townsend, these are splendid books, and Turbayne's ownership of his work is signalled by the fact that almost all of them are signed a monogram of an overlapped A and T, which was sometimes encircled by a line to create his famous 'beetle' signature.Turbayne's version of Art Nouveau is one that unashamedly stresses splendour, animating the surface of the upper board and spine with elaborate, intricate designs. His bindings are nevertheless anything but formulaic, and his treatment of the idiom is complex and various. Some of the books (mainly for A & C Black) are 'Art Nouveau' in what at the time was known as 'the Scottish style' or 'the Glasgow style', using the attenuated linearity associated with the practitioners Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Jessie King and Talwin Morris; while others are swirling arabesques that link to European versions of the idiom, notably recalling the rich patterns of jewellery made by Rene Foy and Édouard Colonna. Both versions of Art Nouveau were freely accessible in England in this period, and Turbayne could have seen examples of artefacts at first hand, in dealers' windows, or in per, Macmillan and Co, 1896, 3, London: Society For Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge / Chapman And Hall, 1842. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Xii, 684; 645-661 (Index), 662-663 (Errata And Notes) (Pagination Duplicated). Title Page Indicates Full Title And 1842 Date But Does Not Indicate The Author's Name. Three Quarter Morocco, Four Bands, Elaborately Gilt In All Compartments, Matching Marbled Endpapers, And Turns. One Volume Edition; Also Issued In Two Volumes, And Brougham Followed With Two More Volumes Later. Near Fine, Slight Rubbing. Henry Peter Brougham, 1St Baron Brougham And Vaux (1778 - 1868) Helped Found The Edinburgh Review In 1802, And Quickly Became Known As Its Foremost Contributor, With Articles On Everything Including Science, Politics, Colonial Policy, Literature, Poetry, Surgery, Mathematics And The Fine Arts. He Published Several Scientific Papers Through The Royal Society, Notably On Light And Colors And On Prisms, And At The Age Of Only 25 Was Elected A Fellow, Although His Work Was Later Found To Be Remarkably Incompetent. In 1810 He Was Member Of Parliament Asa Whig, And Then Represented A Number Of Constituencies, Notably Advocating Education For The Poor, Until Becoming A Peer In 1834. In 1826 Brougham, Along With Wellington, Was One Of The Clients And Lovers Named In The Notorious Memoirs Of Harriette Wilson, But Brougham Paid And Extorted Fee And Secured His Anonymity. Brougham Won Popular Renown For Helping Defeat The 1820 Pains And Penalties Bill, An Attempt By The Widely Disliked George Iv To Annul His Marriage To Caroline Of Brunswick. He Became An Advocate Of Liberal Causes Including Abolition Of The Slave Trade, Free Trade And Parliamentary Reform. Appointed Lord Chancellor In 1830, He Made A Number Of Reforms Intended To Speed Up Legal Cases And Established The Central Criminal Court. The Highlights Of Brougham's Time In Government Were Passing The 1832 Reform Act And 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, But He Was Also Seen As Dangerous, Unreliable And Arrogant. Charles Greville, Who Was Clerk Of The Privy Council For 35 Years, Recorded His "Genius And Eloquence" Was Marred By "Unprincipled And Execrable Judgement." Brougham Was Never To Hold Office Again. However, For More Than Thirty Years After His Fall He Continued To Take An Active Part In The Judicial Business Of The House Of Lords, And In Its Debates, Turning Fiercely Against His Former Political Associates, But Continuing His Efforts On Behalf Of Reform Of Various Kinds. He Also Devoted Much Of His Time To Writing. He Had Continued To Contribute To The Edinburgh Review, The Best Of His Writings Being Subsequently Published As Historical Sketches Of Statesmen Who Flourished In The Time Of George Iii. In 1834, He Was Elected A Foreign Member Of The Royal Swedish Academy Of Sciences. In 1837, Brougham Presented A Bill For Public Education, Arguing That "It Cannot Be Doubted That Some Legislative Effort Must At Length Be Made To Remove From This Country The Opprobrium Of Having Done Less For The Education Of The People Than Any Of The More Civilized Nations On Earth". In 1838, After News Came Up Of British Colonies Where Emancipation Of The Slaves Was Obstructed Or Where The Ex-Slaves Were Being Badly Treated And Discriminated Against, Lord Brougham Stated In The House Of Lords: "The Slave . Is As Fit For His Freedom As Any English Peasant, Aye, Or Any Lord Whom I Now Address. I Demand His Rights; I Demand His Liberty Without Stint. . I Demand That Your Brother Be No Longer Trampled Upon As Your Slave". He Helped Establish The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge And Also University College London, As Well As Holding A Number Of Academic Posts, Including Rector, University Of Edinburgh. In Later Years He Spent Much Of His Time In The French City Of Cannes, Making It A Popular Resort For The British Upper-Classes. Brougham's Political Philosophy Was Included On The Cambridge Syllabus For History And Political Philosophy, Where It Was Considered Among The Major Works On The Topic., Society For Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge / Chapman And Hall, 1842, 4<

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London: Society For Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge / Chapman And Hall 1842, 1843, 1842. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Xii, 684; 645-661 (Index), 662-663 (Errata And Not… More...

London: Society For Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge / Chapman And Hall 1842, 1843, 1842. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Xii, 684; 645-661 (Index), 662-663 (Errata And Notes) (Pagination Duplicated). Title Page Indicates Full Title And 1842 Date But Does Not Indicate The Author's Name. Three Quarter Morocco, Five Bands, Elaborately Gilt In All Compartments, Matching Marbled Endpapers, And Turns. First Volume In Two Volumes Dated 1842 As Volumes I And Ii, And Two More Volumes Dated 1843 As Part Ii And Part Iii (Three Volumes In Four, Complete). Near Fine, Slight Rubbing. Henry Peter Brougham, 1St Baron Brougham And Vaux (1778 - 1868) Helped Found The Edinburgh Review In 1802, And Quickly Became Known As Its Foremost Contributor, With Articles On Everything Including Science, Politics, Colonial Policy, Literature, Poetry, Surgery, Mathematics And The Fine Arts. He Published Several Scientific Papers Through The Royal Society, Notably On Light And Colors And On Prisms, And At The Age Of Only 25 Was Elected A Fellow, Although His Work Was Later Found To Be Remarkably Incompetent. In 1810 He Was Member Of Parliament Asa Whig, And Then Represented A Number Of Constituencies, Notably Advocating Education For The Poor, Until Becoming A Peer In 1834. In 1826 Brougham, Along With Wellington, Was One Of The Clients And Lovers Named In The Notorious Memoirs Of Harriette Wilson, But Brougham Paid And Extorted Fee And Secured His Anonymity. Brougham Won Popular Renown For Helping Defeat The 1820 Pains And Penalties Bill, An Attempt By The Widely Disliked George Iv To Annul His Marriage To Caroline Of Brunswick. He Became An Advocate Of Liberal Causes Including Abolition Of The Slave Trade, Free Trade And Parliamentary Reform. Appointed Lord Chancellor In 1830, He Made A Number Of Reforms Intended To Speed Up Legal Cases And Established The Central Criminal Court. The Highlights Of Brougham's Time In Government Were Passing The 1832 Reform Act And 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, But He Was Also Seen As Dangerous, Unreliable And Arrogant. Charles Greville, Who Was Clerk Of The Privy Council For 35 Years, Recorded His "Genius And Eloquence" Was Marred By "Unprincipled And Execrable Judgement." Brougham Was Never To Hold Office Again. However, For More Than Thirty Years After His Fall He Continued To Take An Active Part In The Judicial Business Of The House Of Lords, And In Its Debates, Turning Fiercely Against His Former Political Associates, But Continuing His Efforts On Behalf Of Reform Of Various Kinds. He Also Devoted Much Of His Time To Writing. He Had Continued To Contribute To The Edinburgh Review, The Best Of His Writings Being Subsequently Published As Historical Sketches Of Statesmen Who Flourished In The Time Of George Iii. In 1834, He Was Elected A Foreign Member Of The Royal Swedish Academy Of Sciences. In 1837, Brougham Presented A Bill For Public Education, Arguing That "It Cannot Be Doubted That Some Legislative Effort Must At Length Be Made To Remove From This Country The Opprobrium Of Having Done Less For The Education Of The People Than Any Of The More Civilized Nations On Earth". In 1838, After News Came Up Of British Colonies Where Emancipation Of The Slaves Was Obstructed Or Where The Ex-Slaves Were Being Badly Treated And Discriminated Against, Lord Brougham Stated In The House Of Lords: "The Slave . Is As Fit For His Freedom As Any English Peasant, Aye, Or Any Lord Whom I Now Address. I Demand His Rights; I Demand His Liberty Without Stint. . I Demand That Your Brother Be No Longer Trampled Upon As Your Slave". He Helped Establish The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge And Also University College London, As Well As Holding A Number Of Academic Posts, Including Rector, University Of Edinburgh. In Later Years He Spent Much Of His Time In Cannes, Making It A Popular Resort For The British Upper-Classes. Brougham's Political Philosophy Was Included On The Cambridge Syllabus For History And Political Philosophy, Where It Was Considered Among The Major Works On The Topic. The Breadth And Modernity Of His Views Are Astounding., Society For Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge / Chapman And Hall 1842, 1843, 1842, 4<

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London: Society For Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge / Chapman And Hall, 1842. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Xii, 684; 645-661 (Index), 662-663 (Errata And Notes) (Pagination Duplica… More...

London: Society For Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge / Chapman And Hall, 1842. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Xii, 684; 645-661 (Index), 662-663 (Errata And Notes) (Pagination Duplicated). Title Page Indicates Full Title And 1842 Date But Does Not Indicate "Part I Nor The Author's Name. Three Quarter Morocco, Four Bands, Elaborately Gilt In All Compartments, Matching Marbled Endpapers, And Turns. Near Fine, Slight Rubbing. Henry Peter Brougham, 1St Baron Brougham And Vaux (1778 - 1868) Helped Found The Edinburgh Review In 1802, And Quickly Became Known As Its Foremost Contributor, With Articles On Everything Including Science, Politics, Colonial Policy, Literature, Poetry, Surgery, Mathematics And The Fine Arts. He Published Several Scientific Papers Through The Royal Society, Notably On Light And Colors And On Prisms, And At The Age Of Only 25 Was Elected A Fellow, Although His Work Was Later Found To Be Remarkably Incompetent. Elected To The House Of Commons In 1810 As A Whig, He Was Member Of Parliament For A Number Of Constituencies, Notably Advocating Education For The Poor, Until Becoming A Peer In 1834. In 1826 Brougham, Along With Wellington, Was One Of The Clients And Lovers Named In The Notorious Memoirs Of Harriette Wilson. Before Publication, Wilson And Publisher John Joseph Stockdale Wrote To All Those Named In The Book Offering Them The Opportunity To Be Excluded From The Work In Exchange For A Cash Payment. Brougham Paid And Secured His Anonymity. Brougham Won Popular Renown For Helping Defeat The 1820 Pains And Penalties Bill, An Attempt By The Widely Disliked George Iv To Annul His Marriage To Caroline Of Brunswick. He Became An Advocate Of Liberal Causes Including Abolition Of The Slave Trade, Free Trade And Parliamentary Reform. Appointed Lord Chancellor In 1830, He Made A Number Of Reforms Intended To Speed Up Legal Cases And Established The Central Criminal Court. The Highlights Of Brougham's Time In Government Were Passing The 1832 Reform Act And 1833 Slavery Abolition Act But He Was Seen As Dangerous, Unreliable And Arrogant. Charles Greville, Who Was Clerk Of The Privy Council For 35 Years, Recorded His "Genius And Eloquence" Was Marred By "Unprincipled And Execrable Judgement." Brougham Was Never To Hold Office Again. However, For More Than Thirty Years After His Fall He Continued To Take An Active Part In The Judicial Business Of The House Of Lords, And In Its Debates, Having Now Turned Fiercely Against His Former Political Associates, But Continuing His Efforts On Behalf Of Reform Of Various Kinds. He Also Devoted Much Of His Time To Writing. He Had Continued To Contribute To The Edinburgh Review, The Best Of His Writings Being Subsequently Published As Historical Sketches Of Statesmen Who Flourished In The Time Of George Iii. In 1834, He Was Elected A Foreign Member Of The Royal Swedish Academy Of Sciences. In 1837, Brougham Presented A Bill For Public Education, Arguing That "It Cannot Be Doubted That Some Legislative Effort Must At Length Be Made To Remove From This Country The Opprobrium Of Having Done Less For The Education Of The People Than Any Of The More Civilized Nations On Earth". In 1838, After News Came Up Of British Colonies Where Emancipation Of The Slaves Was Obstructed Or Where The Ex-Slaves Were Being Badly Treated And Discriminated Against, Lord Brougham Stated In The House Of Lords: "The Slave . Is As Fit For His Freedom As Any English Peasant, Aye, Or Any Lord Whom I Now Address. I Demand His Rights; I Demand His Liberty Without Stint. . I Demand That Your Brother Be No Longer Trampled Upon As Your Slave". He Helped Establish The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge And University College London, As Well As Holding A Number Of Academic Posts, Including Rector, University Of Edinburgh. In Later Years He Spent Much Of His Time In The French City Of Cannes, Making It A Popular Resort For The British Upper-Classes. Brougham's Political Philosophy Was Included On The Cambridge Syllabus For History And Political Philosophy, Where It Was Considered Among The Major Works On The Topic., Society For Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge / Chapman And Hall, 1842, 4<

1868, ISBN: 255d7c2e97bc10e47db5cb97c3af096a

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London: Society For Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge / Chapman And Hall, 1842. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Xii, 684; 645-661 (Index), 662-663 (Errata And Notes) (Pagination Duplica… More...

London: Society For Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge / Chapman And Hall, 1842. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Xii, 684; 645-661 (Index), 662-663 (Errata And Notes) (Pagination Duplicated). Title Page Indicates Full Title And 1842 Date But Does Not Indicate The Author's Name. Three Quarter Morocco, Four Bands, Elaborately Gilt In All Compartments, Matching Marbled Endpapers, And Turns. One Volume Edition; Also Issued In Two Volumes, And Brougham Followed With Two More Volumes Later. Near Fine, Slight Rubbing. Henry Peter Brougham, 1St Baron Brougham And Vaux (1778 - 1868) Helped Found The Edinburgh Review In 1802, And Quickly Became Known As Its Foremost Contributor, With Articles On Everything Including Science, Politics, Colonial Policy, Literature, Poetry, Surgery, Mathematics And The Fine Arts. He Published Several Scientific Papers Through The Royal Society, Notably On Light And Colors And On Prisms, And At The Age Of Only 25 Was Elected A Fellow, Although His Work Was Later Found To Be Remarkably Incompetent. In 1810 He Was Member Of Parliament Asa Whig, And Then Represented A Number Of Constituencies, Notably Advocating Education For The Poor, Until Becoming A Peer In 1834. In 1826 Brougham, Along With Wellington, Was One Of The Clients And Lovers Named In The Notorious Memoirs Of Harriette Wilson, But Brougham Paid And Extorted Fee And Secured His Anonymity. Brougham Won Popular Renown For Helping Defeat The 1820 Pains And Penalties Bill, An Attempt By The Widely Disliked George Iv To Annul His Marriage To Caroline Of Brunswick. He Became An Advocate Of Liberal Causes Including Abolition Of The Slave Trade, Free Trade And Parliamentary Reform. Appointed Lord Chancellor In 1830, He Made A Number Of Reforms Intended To Speed Up Legal Cases And Established The Central Criminal Court. The Highlights Of Brougham's Time In Government Were Passing The 1832 Reform Act And 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, But He Was Also Seen As Dangerous, Unreliable And Arrogant. Charles Greville, Who Was Clerk Of The Privy Council For 35 Years, Recorded His "Genius And Eloquence" Was Marred By "Unprincipled And Execrable Judgement." Brougham Was Never To Hold Office Again. However, For More Than Thirty Years After His Fall He Continued To Take An Active Part In The Judicial Business Of The House Of Lords, And In Its Debates, Turning Fiercely Against His Former Political Associates, But Continuing His Efforts On Behalf Of Reform Of Various Kinds. He Also Devoted Much Of His Time To Writing. He Had Continued To Contribute To The Edinburgh Review, The Best Of His Writings Being Subsequently Published As Historical Sketches Of Statesmen Who Flourished In The Time Of George Iii. In 1834, He Was Elected A Foreign Member Of The Royal Swedish Academy Of Sciences. In 1837, Brougham Presented A Bill For Public Education, Arguing That "It Cannot Be Doubted That Some Legislative Effort Must At Length Be Made To Remove From This Country The Opprobrium Of Having Done Less For The Education Of The People Than Any Of The More Civilized Nations On Earth". In 1838, After News Came Up Of British Colonies Where Emancipation Of The Slaves Was Obstructed Or Where The Ex-Slaves Were Being Badly Treated And Discriminated Against, Lord Brougham Stated In The House Of Lords: "The Slave . Is As Fit For His Freedom As Any English Peasant, Aye, Or Any Lord Whom I Now Address. I Demand His Rights; I Demand His Liberty Without Stint. . I Demand That Your Brother Be No Longer Trampled Upon As Your Slave". He Helped Establish The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge And Also University College London, As Well As Holding A Number Of Academic Posts, Including Rector, University Of Edinburgh. In Later Years He Spent Much Of His Time In The French City Of Cannes, Making It A Popular Resort For The British Upper-Classes. Brougham's Political Philosophy Was Included On The Cambridge Syllabus For History And Political Philosophy, Where It Was Considered Among The Major Works On The Topic., Society For Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge / Chapman And Hall, 1842, 4<