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G. Bell and Sons Ltd, 1950. Hardcover, 396 pp. Translated from the original in German by Eric Northcott. First English edition.
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In acceptable condition / no dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with black block and gold letter on spine. light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges. Light overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Spine cracked along front hinge but binding is otherwise solid. Some pages have underlining and margin notes in both pencil and some ink. A solid reading copy. Some black and white plates. The political history of England 1735-1806 as illustrated by Henry and Charles James Fox and the Elder and the Younger Pitt. Translated from the original in German, the history has a decidedly "liberal" German perspective. Eyck uses a series of coincidences to give unity to his ambitious tale: The elder Pitt and Henry Fox, destined like their sons to be political rivals, entered the House of Commons the same year, 1735; Pitt, like young Charles, spent long years in opposition, detested by the king; the two Pitts, like the two Foxes, were second sons; three of the four were happily married; three were spendthrifts; Pitt the younger died at forty-six, exactly Bismarck's age when he became prime minister of Prussia; William and Charles both died in 1806. Contents include: Henry Fox: Beginnings; William Pitt: Ancestry and Beginnings; Parliamentary Apprenticeship. Walpole's Fall. Carteret; Paymaster Pitt and Secretary Fox; Pelham's Death to the Seven Years' War; Secretary Pitt and Paymaster Fox; The New King; Henry Fox: Triumph and Disaster; Grenville, Wilkes and the Stamp Act; The Rockingham Ministry; The Fiasco of the Chatham Ministry; The Middlesex Election; Chatham and the Whig Opposition; Charles Fox's Youthful Feats; America. Fox in Opposition; Chatham's End; Charles Fox's Victory over George III; Beginnings of the Younger Pitt; The Coalition. George III's Victory over Charles Fox; Pitt as Peace Minister; The French Revolution; The Outbreak of War against France; The War Years; Fox in Retirement, and the Rise of Bonaparte; Ireland, the Catholic Question and Pitt's Resignation; The Addington Interlude; Pitt's Second Ministry and His Death; Fox's Ministry and Death; Bibliographical Note; Index of Events; Index of Persons