The History of Parliament THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 1715-1754 (Two Volume Set) de SEDGWICK Romney:

GB: HMSO (H.M.S.O) (His/Her Majestys Stationery Office), 1970. Very clean tight text in sound covers but some marks to front cover. Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket are in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1900g. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG-/VG- DW.

GB: HMSO (H.M.S.O) (His/Her Majestys Stationery Office), 1970. EX REFERENCE LIBRARY BOOKS. Books are in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY GB £8.75. Packed weight 3400g.. 1st Edition. Hardback. VG-/No Dw.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970 . First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 10" by 7.5". Various. The first edition of this dense history of the House of Commons in the early eighteenth century. First edition of The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1715-1754 by Romney Sedgwick in the original publisher's cloth bindings and unclipped dust wrappers. Complete in two volumes. Volume I includes an introductory survey, appendices, constituencies, and members A-D. Volume II includes members E-Y. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece to each volume. Collated, complete. Romney Sedgwick was a British historian, diplomat, and civil servant. He edited these two works which were published as part of 'The History of Parliament' project, intended to write a complete history of the United Kingdom Parliament. Prior owner's book plates to the first pastedowns. From the library of John Cornforth, an architectural historian and writer, who wrote articles for Country Life and worked for… Leer más

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office for the History of Parliament Trust, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office for the History of Parliament Trust, 1970. Quarto, two volumes; gilt-decorated blue cloth; spines slightly sunned and bumped; bookseller's label to each front flyleaf; an excellent set with the dustwrappers a little marked, sunned, creased and torn. 'The essential information about the Members of the House of Commons between 1715 and 1754'; Sir Robert Walpole and his Robinocracy are prominent, as are such events as the South Sea Bubble, both Jacobite rebellions (1715 and 1745), and the war with Spain (1739-1748).

London : HMSO, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description : 2 v. (xv, 633 p., 2 leaves of plates ; ix, 571 p., 1 leaf of plates) : ill., plan, port. ; 26 cm. Contents : [Vol.] 1. Introductory survey -- Appendices -- Constituencies -- Members, A-D -- [v.] 2. Members, E-Y. Subjects : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. ; Biography.