Author: MACDIARMID (John):
Title: Lives of British Statesmen.
Description: London: Printed by T. Bensley...for Longman..., 1807. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 295 x 228 mms., pp. xii, 577 [578 blank], [ii], 29 [30 blank, 31 - 36 adverts], engraved portrait of Sir Thomas More as frontispiece, uncut, original boards; spine defective, covers detached. Born in Perthsire in 1779 and educated at the universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews, Macdiarmid moved to London to make his living as a man of letters. He published two books on military matters before this one. Isaac Disraeli, in his Calamities of Authors (1812) records that "Some research and reflection are combined in this literary and civil history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--but it was written with the blood of the author, for Macdiarmid died of over-study, and exhaustion."

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