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RUSSELL, John, Lord . The Life and Times of Charles James Fox.Trans Atlantic Radicalism RUSSELL, John, Lord. The Life and Times of Charles James Fox. London: Richard Bentley. 1850 1866. Three volumes, 8vo. Original publishers blue pebble grained cloth, partly uncut and unopened, spines lettered in gilt, covers ornamented in blind, brown endpapers with publishers advertisements; I: pp. xv, [1 (blank], 366, 2 (advertisements); II: viii, 380; III: xii, 404; spine ends bumped, slight wear to corners and extremities,
Trans-Atlantic Radicalism
RUSSELL, John, Lord. The Life and Times of Charles James Fox. London: Richard Bentley. 1850-1866.
Three volumes, 8vo. Original publisher’s blue pebble-grained cloth, partly uncut and unopened, spines lettered in gilt, covers ornamented in blind, brown endpapers with publisher’s advertisements; I: pp. xv, [1 (blank], 366, 2 (advertisements); II: viii, 380; III: xii, 404; spine ends bumped, slight wear to corners and extremities, slight foxing to fore-edge of textblock; sporadic light spotting; overall a very good set.
First edition of Lord John Russell’s biography of Whig statesman Charles James Fox (1749–1806), Britain’s first Foreign Secretary, rival of William Pitt, a supporter of American independence and the French Revolution, and a friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson; all three volumes are rarely seen together, and are rarer still in the uniform publisher’s bindings.
John Russell presents his biography of Fox as a tribute informed by his lifelong Whig convictions. ‘The defining moment in [Russell’s] politics, which occurred nine years before he was born, was George III’s dismissal of Charles James Fox in 1783. Throughout his life he worked with a statue of Fox on his desk’. (ODNB) Similarly to Fox, he believed that, even amid the age of revolutionary societies, the danger to Parliament came not from the people but from an overreaching monarch.
These three volumes offer substantial insight into the struggles of the American colonies and intellectual movements which would shape the emerging United States. Fox promoted the work of Tom Paine and other campaigners for Parliamentary reform, and in 1787 formed the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Appointed Britain’s first Foreign Secretary in 1806, Fox also delivered a legendary and impassioned speech in the House of Commons condeming the slave trade.
SKU: 2122158
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