JUNIUS (pseud)

JUNIUS: Stat Nominis Umbra. [The Letters of Junius]

London. Printed by T. Bensley for Verner and Hood. 1797. 8vo, 21cm, xxxv274 & 319pp., engraved title pages & 21 engraved portrait plates (inc two frontis portraits), many attractive head and tail vignette & text illustrations, index, rebacked in speckled mottled calf, orignal double black morrocco spine labels, blind panel decorations, both title page name clipped along the top edge, some light stainting through the top of the first eight pages of volume two, some slight edgewear, a fine set. Fine. Item #44280

Sixty-nine celebrated letters written anonymously under the pseudonym, Junius, and published in the "Public Advertiser" fro September 21, 1769 through September 21, 1772. With a dedication to the English people and a preface by the author. The book is illustrated with portraits of the public characters addressed or alluded to by Julius including Edmund Burke, Judge Blackstone, King George III, Sir William Draper, John Wilkes, and Lord North. Forty one persons were accused of being Junius, the most notable being Thomas Paine, William Pitt, Edmund Burke, Lord Sackville and John Wilkes. The strongest contemporary argument was that Sir Philip Francis was Junius.

Price: $350.00