memoirs life right honourable william de tomline sir george (1 résultats)

Hardcover. 2 Volumes. 4to. pp. xi, [1]errata, 583; iv, 620. A nice large copy, bound in contemporary (or near contemporary) half black calf by Charles Thurnam of Carlisle, with his tickets (light shelf-wear, scattered light foxing - a little heavier on outer leaves). First Edition. One of Pitt's closest confidants and advisors throughout his life, Tomline was his tutor at Pembroke, and his private secretary at the beginning of his term as prime minister, from 1783 until Pitt secured him his appointment as Bishop of Lincoln in 1787. Tomline attended Pitt on his deathbed, being named his literary executor. Little use was made of Pitt's letters by Tomline in the present memoir, and the public, eagerly expecting a revealing intimate portrait of the statesman, was sorely disappointed by Tomline's circumspection. A third volume, covering the period from 1793 to 1806, was promised and in fact mostly written, but it was never published. Including some discussion of America, the Revolutionary War, and the Quebec Bill. Williams I p. 171. Not in Sabin.