George Selwyn and his contemporaries: with memoirs and notes
Boston, Massachusetts: Francis A. Niccolls & Co., 1843. 4 volumes, 6" x 9" (each) pp. 1617 (collectively); includes 23 black and white plates. Limited deluxe edition #645 of 1000. Mint green cloth boards, exhibiting a few light scratches throughout; spine is toned. The paper label on the spine of volume 1 has two large tears with loss. Labels are toned with a few smudges on Volume 3. Boards bent at corners with light edge scuffing but are otherwise sound. Owner inscription on front free end paper of each volume. Text is clean. Good to very good. Item #567
"George Augustus Selwyn (11 August 1719?25 January 1791, age 71) was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Parliament of Great Britain. Selwyn spent 44 years in the House of Commons without being recorded as making a speech. He put his electoral interest, as the person who controlled both seats in Ludgershall and one in Gloucester, at the disposal of the King's ministers (whoever they might be), because he was financially dependent on obtaining (a total of three) sinecure offices and a pension, which offset his expenses of bribing the electorate, and his gambling debts."--Wikipedia.
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