The history and proceedings of the House of Commons : from the restoration to the present time ... [eleven volumes]

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons

1742, First Edition. London : Printed for Richard Chandler, and sold at the Ship without Temple-Bar, and at York and Scarborough. Good copies overall, all in contemporary full leather boards. Heavy edge wear with variable but substantial surface loss and flaking. Spines heavily worn, with raised bands and gilt-blocked titles (now entirely faded on volume 7, variably legible on others). Joints somewhat worn on all volumes; weak on volumes 10, 12, and 14, with both boards detached (but present) on volume 9. Text blocks remain notably tight, bright and clean throughout; endpapers somewhat foxed. A very serviceable and internally well-preserved collection. Item #460240

Physical description; 11 volumes ; 21 cm. Notes; Published 1742-1744. Title continues: "Containing the most remarkable motions, speeches, resolves, reports and conferences to be met with in that interval : as also the most exact estimates of the charge of government, state of the public revenue, the rise and growth of the national debt, expence of the war, proceedings on ways and means, speeches and messages from the throne, addresses, and remonstrances, also the numbers pro and con upon every division &c. Many of which curious particulars were never before printed : Collected from the best authorities, compared with the journals of the House, and illustrated with a great variety of historical and explanatory notes : together with a large appendix containing exact lists of every parliament, the names of the speakers, their several posts under the government, and other valuable, supplemental pieces." Edited by C. Ward and R. Chandler. Contents: 1. 1660-1680 -- 3. 1695-1706 -- 4. 1706-1713 -- 5. 1713-1714 -- 7. 1727-1733 -- 8. 1733-1734 -- 9. 1734-1737 -- 10. 1737-1739 -- 11. 1739 -- 12. 1740 -- 14. 1742-1743. This collection lacking volumes 2, 6, and 13. Subjects; Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons History Sources. Great Britain Politics and government 1660-1714. Great Britain Politics and government 1714-1760. Great Britain History 1660-1714 Sources. Great Britain History George I, 1714-1727 Sources. Great Britain History George II, 1727-1760 Sources.

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