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Granville, George - 1st Baron Lansdowne Poems Upon Several Occasions
Printed for J Tonson at Shakespear's Head, over-against Katherine Street in the Strand 1712 1st edition.
Full modern calf, VG. viii+267pp, rebound in the last 10 years or so to style in plain tan calf, paper a little yellowed & occasionally spotted, good wide margins, a nice copy. The 'British Enchanters' has it's own Title Page, dated 1710. The collected poems of George Granville [ 1666 - 1735 ] which Samuel Johnson liked to a bad immitation of Samuel Waller. Granville was an early patron of Alexander Pope, and as his literary ambitions was also much involved in the politics of the day. He became a Privy Counsellor & was made Secretary of War - but this all came to nothing when George I came to the throne in 1714. Granville & his Tory peers found the new King to be a Whig & all lost their positions.
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160.00 GBP
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