Author: AYLING, STANLEY
Title: George the Third
Description: London, Collins. 1972, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002114127). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on brown cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with a hint of wear to spine tail and lower corner tips. Internally there is a small name to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket is price clipped. 510 pages, 29 illustrations and genealogical chart endpapers. Since the demolition work of Sir Lewis Namier and his followers biographers have fought shy of this tempting yet dangerously complex subject, and a new study of King George III was badly overdue. This most accomplished biography by Stanley Ayling of a richly human and critically important subject, written with wit, humour, a style of distinction, a sceptical yet never cynical intelligence and warm sympathy, based upon a lifetime's study. NOT EX LIB NOT BOOK CLUB A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.0 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST 15. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: King George the Third, House of Hanover, Charlotte of Mecklenburg, Sarah Lennox 0002114127


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