Gratulatio Academiae Oxoniensis in Nuptias. ..Frederici Principis Walliaeet Augustae Principissae de Saxo Gotha

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1736 Fascinating copy of this collection of congratulatory verses on the marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Augusta. From the library of bibliophile William Bolland (Dibdin's "Hortensius"), with his name neatly penned on flyleaf; and with the following items inserted: a contemporary copy of George II's letter to the Prince, banishing him from St. James's; a contemporary copy on vellum of the Marriage License of the Prince and Princess; bookplate of the Prince of Wales & Bishop of Osnaburgh, May 1771; bookplate of George III; bookplate of the Prince of Wales, Carleton Library; engraved portraits of George II and Prince Frederick Louis. The long-standing hostility between George II and the Prince of Wales came to a climax when the Prince failed to inform His Majesty of the Princess's pregnancy; the King sent a letter to the Prince, banishing him from the Court indefinitely. "Copies of the correspondence...were sent by the King to each of the British ambassadors abroad and the foreign ambassadors in England..." (DNB). The letter contained herein is apparently one such copy (ROYAL FAMILY) First edition. Folio. . Contemporary full red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Rebacked, rubbed, extremities worn

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