Junius:
The Letters of Junius - hardcover
1950, ISBN: a9ecef6866da2c990e898aae315af019
Edinburgh: Peter Davies Limited, 1934. Third Impression [stated]. Hardcover. Good/No dust jacket present. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 7.75 inches. 175, [13 pages, including a … More...
Edinburgh: Peter Davies Limited, 1934. Third Impression [stated]. Hardcover. Good/No dust jacket present. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 7.75 inches. 175, [13 pages, including a multi-page list of short biographies]. With Frontispiece and seven maps. Bibliographical Note. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page edgewear noted. Previous owner's name stamped on fep. The Honourable Sir John William Fortescue KCVO FRHistS (28 December 1859 - 22 October 1933) was a British military historian. His family owned much of the area around Simonsbath on Exmoor since the twelfth century, thus he joined the North Devon Yeomanry Cavalry latterly serving as a major. Fortescue was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, later lecturing at Oxford (DLitt (Oxon)). He was a historian of the British Army and served as Royal Librarian and Archivist at Windsor Castle from 1905 until 1926. Fortescue is best known for his major work on the history of the British Army, which he wrote between 1899 and 1930. Between 1905 and 1926 he worked as the Royal Librarian at Windsor Castle. In 1911, Fortescue delivered the Ford Lectures at Oxford University. In 1920 he delivered the British Academy's Raleigh Lecture on History. He served as President of the Royal Historical Society from 1921 to 1925 and was elected an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He received the King George V Version of the Royal Household Long and Faithful Service Medal in 1925 for 20 years service to the British Royal Family. Fortescue was appointed KCVO in the 1926 King's Birthday Honours List. A masterpiece of military history, this is the concise biography of arguably England's greatest General by arguably Britain's greatest military historian. Fortescue's Marlborough is less of a hagiography than the huge two volume life by Marlborough's great descendent, Winston Churchill, but is a marvelous read for all that. Briskly taking in the story of the political machinations in Britain which often bedeviled the Duke's brilliance in battle, Fortescue's focus is firmly on the field of conflict. His accounts of the Duke's four great victories - Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet - as well as his sieges and lesser actions, is magnificent. A master of military history writing about a master of the art of war itself - this book, like Marlborough himself, cannot be beaten. General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, KG, PC (26 May 1650 - 16 June 1722 O.S.) was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs. From a gentry family, he served first as a page at the court of the House of Stuart under James, Duke of York, through the 1670s and early 1680s, earning military and political advancement through his courage and diplomatic skill. Churchill's role in defeating the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 helped secure James on the throne, but he was a key player in the military conspiracy that led to James being deposed during the Glorious Revolution. Rewarded by William III with the title Earl of Marlborough, persistent charges of Jacobitism led to his fall from office and temporary imprisonment in the Tower of London. William recognized his abilities by appointing him as his deputy in Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) before the War of the Spanish Succession in 1701, but not until the accession of Queen Anne in 1702 did he secure his fame and fortune Marriage to Sarah Jennings and her relationship with Anne ensured Marlborough's rise, first to the captain-generalcy of British forces, then to a dukedom. As de facto leader of Allied forces in the Low Countries, his victories at Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), Oudenarde (1708), and Malplaquet (1709) ensured his place in history as one of Europe's great generals. His wife's stormy relationship with the Queen, and her subsequent dismissal from court, was central to his own fall. Incurring Anne's disfavor, and caught between Tory and Whig factions, Marlborough was forced from office and went into self-imposed exile. He returned to favor with the accession of George I to the British throne in 1714. Marlborough's leadership of the Allied armies fighting Louis XIV from 1701 to 1710 consolidated Britain's emergence as a front-rank power, while his ability to maintain unity in the fractious coalition demonstrated his diplomatic skills. He is often remembered by military historians as much for his organizational and logistic skills as his tactical abilities. However, he was also instrumental in moving away from the siege warfare that dominated the Nine Years' War, arguing one battle was worth ten sieges., Peter Davies Limited, 1934, 2.5, London: Printed for J. Mundell & Co, Edinburgh; and for J. Mundell, Glasgow, 1798. Engraved portrait by Thomas Trotter after an original painting. Pp. viii, 316. Small illustration pasted in lower blank margin of p. 15 (some marking from glue). 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt. Covers detached, lacking label on spine, extremities rubbed, first few leaves including title separated with upper cover, pencilled signature on title with pencilled library ownership notation, a few other pencilled numbers or markings, else a very good copy. Engraved portrait by Thomas Trotter after an original painting. Pp. viii, 316. Small illustration pasted in lower blank margin of p. 15 (some marking from glue). 1 vols. 8vo. Philadelphia Bookseller's label. With the contemporary rectangular lavender printed label reading "John Penington/& Son/ Importers & Booksellers/ 127 S. 7th St./ Philadelphia" on front pastedown. This firm not noted in Brown & Brown's "Directory of the Book-Arts and Book Trade in Philadelphia to 1820" (1950 edition) An early collected edition of these letters, which first appeared in the London PUBLIC ADVERTISER from Jan. 21, 1769, to Jan. 21, 1772, under the pseudonym of "Junius" (Possibly Sir Philip Francis). "...'Junius' poured brilliantly slanderous invective upon Tory-minded English ministers, especially the Duke of Grafton, for a series of 'inconsistent measures' which allegedly ruined England and drove the colonies 'into excesses little short of rebellion.' Vehement, lucid, frequently reprinted in English and colonial newspapers, the letters were polemical masterpieces with such extraordinary knowledge and appreciation of contemporary colonial opinion that they lent moral support to the early revolutionary cause. 'Junius' opposed the Tea Duty, but upheld the legality of the Stamp Act, and prophesied (Dec. 19, 1769) that the colonies aimed at independence" - DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY., Printed for J. Mundell & Co, Edinburgh; and for J. Mundell, Glasgow, 1798, 0<
