The Greville Memoirs. a Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV [ James Lees-Milne Bookplate ] by Greville Charles C. F - 1875

New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine is browned. Page edges are slightly browned. Owner's name and date written on the front free endpaper. ; Bric-A-Brac Series .

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1875. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Small white call # on spines, pockets on inside rear covers. Very few stamps, pencil library notations. Inside front covers of both books have previous owner's small nice bookplate along with a large pasted in gift inscription to the previous owners dated 1875. Priority and international shipping will be extra, please inquire. ; Two volume set. Edited by Henry Reeve. ; Ex-Library; 5 1/2 x 8 "; 1065 pages.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1874. Second Edition. Hardcover. Slight wear to the spine ends. Volume 1: front inner hinge is cracked. Volume 2: splitting to the front spine edge, mostly at the upper corner. Volume 3: split to lower end of front inner hinge. ; In three volumes, complete. .

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874.. Three volumes. Large octavos.Three-quarter green calf and marbled boards, spines elaborately gilt extra, gilt labels, half-titles bound in.. Foretips shelfworn, crowns of spines frayed a bit, bookplate in first volume, but very good. First edition of the first component of this this substantial and occasionally controversial historical record, edited by Henry Reeve, and published posthumously. "Greville did not stoop to collect or record private scandals. His object appears to have been to leave behind him some of the materials of history, by which the men and actions of his own time would be judged. He records not so much public events as the private causes which led to them; and perhaps no English memoir-writer has left behind him a more valuable contribution to the history of the 19th century" - Wikipedia. A second component, covering the period 1837-1852 appeared in 1885, and the concluding two volumes, covering 1852 to 1860, appeared in 1887.