The Greville Diary Including Passages Hitherto Withheld from Publication

London: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 10" by 6.5". None. A first edition of this set of the Greville diaries, including passages previously withheld from publication. With a black and white frontispiece in each, and a number of plates. Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (2 April 1794 – 17 January 1865) was an English diarist and an amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1819 to 1827. His father Charles Greville was a second cousin of the 1st Earl of Warwick, and his mother was Lady Charlotte Bentinck, daughter of the 3rd Duke of Portland (former leader of the Whig party and Prime Minister). In green cloth bindings with gilt title and design detailing to front boards, and clipped dust wrappers. Externally, generally smart with slight damp staining and bumping to extremities. The dust wrappers are strong with only closed tears, some wear to the extremities and some discolouration. Internally firmly bound, with pages bright and clean; a little scattered spotting and minor discolouration to the endpapers, and some spotting to the fore-edge. Very Good Indeed