Characters of the Late Charles James Fox

Fine reliure d'époque légèrement frottée aux coiffes avec petit manque à la coiffe supérieure. 2 accorcs au dos. Nonobstant reliure de belle facture. La page de titre a été légèrement restaurée sur le bord droit. Pas d'atteinte au texte. John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (1766 1839) was a British Whig politician and notably served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the Ministry of All the Talents as did Charles James Fox. He was the father of Prime Minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell. Charles James Fox (1749 1806) was a prominent British Whig statesman who was particularly noted for being the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. He became noted as an anti-slavery campaigner, a supporter of the French Revolution, and a leading parliamentary advocate of religious tolerance and individual liberty. Samuel Parr (1747-1825) was an English schoolmaster. For some twenty years Charles James Fox was a political hero to Parr, who became nicknamed the Jacobinical Parson. When Fox died in 1806, Parr followed the bier at his funeral in Westminster Abbey and commemorated him by publishing in 1809 the heterogeneous two volumes of Characters of Charles James Fox. The first volume comprises newspaper obituaries of Fox, funeral sermons by whig divines, his own eulogy of Fox from the Praefatio ad Bellendenum, and finally a long letter upon Fox by Parr to Coke of Holkham. The second, larger volume consists of a multiplicity of notes, notes upon notes, extra notes and additions to notes, and then a discursive review of Fox's history of James II