LEWIS, Sir George Cornewell Bart.

Essays on the Administrations of Great Britain from 1783 to 1830 ... edited by Sir Edmund Head, Bart.

London, Longman, 1864. 8vo, pp. xxi, [1] blank, [1] contents, [1] blank, 500; engraved frontispieceportrait; library book plate to front pastedown; contemporary ink ownership inscription to verso of portrait; contemporary ink annotations to verso of title; occasional underlining and sidelining; contemporary full cloth with blind stamped decoration; evidence of library label to upper board; spine lettered gilt, sunned. First collected edition. These essays were contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lewis (1806–1863), presumably while he was editor from 1852–5, and collected for publication by Head (1805–1868). The essays describe the administrations of Lord North to the fall of the Duke of Wellington in 1830. They ‘do not profess to give a continuous narrative, or to contain a complete history of the period to which they relate. They are in fact a commentary on the ministerial history of England’.Provenance: This copy has the ownership inscription of Hudson Gurney (1775–1864) who, according to the manuscript note, had met Lewis on the 13 March 1843 and known his father very well. The library bookplate indicates that it was part of a gift from Hudson Gurney’s heir, his cousin John Henry (1819–1890), to Norfolk and Norwich Library.

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