Horace Walpole - Memoirs of the Reign of King George The Third - 1845

"Memoirs of the Reign of King George The Third" by Horace Walpole now first published from the original Mss edited with notes by Sir Denis Le Marchant - Richard Bentley, London - 1845 first edition - complete in four volumes - 15cmx13cm - condition: good, in original publisher's binding with some wear and rubbing to boards and edges, frontispieces present, some page foxing.

Walpole’s aim in Memoirs of the Reign of King George III was not to chronicle events year by year (October 1760 – February 1772), as he had done in Memoirs of King George II, but to defend what he called his "return to action" and to attack those who had thwarted it. Yet previous editors, first Sir Denis le Marchant in 1845 and then G. F. Russell Barker in 1894, abridged or altered much of what Walpole said about his friends and his enemies, and left out most of his lies and fantasies about the British Royal Family. These editors produced a narrative that seemed impersonal as well as impartial, the work of a detached spectator rather than a committed participant