Greville's England

These selections from the diaries of Charles Greville cover English public life from 1818 to 1860. Greville, Clerk of the Privy Council, recorded courts, cabinets, elections, and society from a seat near ministers such as Wellington, Melbourne, Peel, and Palmerston. The entries mix political negotiation with gossip about the royal household, manners, and reputations. He is frank about weakness in office and on the throne. The book is not a memoir written after the fact but a contemporary journal cut down to a single volume: a witness account of late Georgian and early Victorian government as it looked from the inside.

Full green buckram binding decorated in gold. Yellow endleaves. Pale yellow-brown slipcase.