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The Queens Chameleon: The Life of John Byrom - a Study of Conflicting Loyalties by Hancox, Joy - 1994
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The Queens Chameleon: The Life of John Byrom - a Study of Conflicting Loyalties
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London.: Jonathan Cape., 1994. Cloth. New/New. 8vo.
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- ISBN 10 0224030477
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- Publisher Jonathan Cape.
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- Date Published 1994
- Keywords Royal Society Cabala Club Secret Societies Freemasons John Byrom Masons MasonicTheatre Design
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The Queen's Chameleon:The Life of John Byrom: A Study of Conflicting Loyalties
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. (UK) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in Fine (-) dust jacket. Hardcover, 276pp, index, B&W illus. Byrom was an English poet, the inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand and later a significant landowner. He was possibly a spy and a secret Jacobite who had an affair wit Queen Caroline, wife of George III. Byrom invented a system of phonetic shorthand and taught it to leading politicians and o=social figures. He formed a secret society vcalled the Cabala Club. (2.0 JM 0732. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine (-). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
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Jonathan Cape, 1994. First. Hardback. Good. Outline:- John Byrom (1691-1763) was an enigma, a playboy, a philosopher, a poet and possibly a spy. On the one hand a pillar of the Establishment Byrom was also an active and secret Jacobite who conducted a wild affair with Queen Caroline. At least one of Byrom`s close associates went to the gallows to protect his good name in high society while George II, unaware of the traitor at the gate, granted him by Act of Parliament a monopoly license top teach his new system of phonetic shorthand to leading political and social figures who might have caused to conceal their communications. Not content with being a member of the Royal society with Isaac Newton as well as the Freemasons. Byrom formed a secret society known as the Cabala Club through which he amassed a collection of mystical drawing and architectural designs in his search for a new model of the universe. Through the poems he published in the leading journals of the day he planted oblique references…
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The Queen's Chameleon. The Life of John Byrom. A study of conflicting loyalties.
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London, Jonathan Cape. 1994. Original publisher's red paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: frontispiece portrait, [xij], 276pp., illustrations, acknowledgements, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Very fine copy.
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