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THE MEMOIRS OF SIR NATHANIEL WRAXELL! Complete in 5-volumes. Printed in 1884. By Henry Wheatley. Bound by the prestigious Bindery: Bickers and Son, London. Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, 1st Baronet (8 April 1751 – 7 November 1831) was an English author. Henry Benjamin Wheatley FSA (1838–1917) was a British author, editor, and indexer. His London Past and Present was described as his most important work and "the standard dictionary of London" High quality polished calf leather. Intricately gilded spines. Top edges are gilded. Heavy rag-style paper. These are heavy books. Wide margins. Fully illustrated with plates protected by tissue. This set is still bound in the original bindings from 1884. The hinges are all strongly attached. No writing. Some generalized usage wear and abrasions. Small marginal edge chip on frontis not affecting frontis. All hinges strongly attached. Complete in 5-volumes. Appears fee of foxing. VERY GOOD condition. Some external wear, minor micro chips to labels, as shown. This is a gorgeous antiquarian set. Each book will be well protected for shipping. In 1775 he published his first book, Cursory Remarks made in a Tour through some of the Northern Parts of Europe, which reached its fourth edition by 1807, when it was renamed A Tour Round the Baltic. In 1777 he travelled again in Germany and Italy. As he had by this time secured the patronage of important people, he obtained a complimentary lieutenant's commission from the king on the application of Lord Robert Manners, which gave him the right to wear uniform though he never performed any military service. In this year he published his Memoirs of the Kings of France of the Race of Valois, to which he appended an account of his tour in the Western, Southern and Interior Provinces of France. In 1778 he went again on his travels to Germany and Italy, and accumulated materials for his Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw and Vienna (1799). This would make an excellent gift and/or addition to any library. Antiquarian books make a great investment, are only going up in value, and are sure to increase the aura of any room or office! item# 3067OOTREV Nathaniel Wraxall From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Nathaniel William Wraxall Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, 1st Baronet (8 April 1751 – 7 November 1831) was an English author. Contents 1 Life 2 Family 3 Notes 4 References 5 External links He was born in Queen Square , Bristol , the son of a Bristol merchant, Nathaniel Wraxall, and his wife Anne, great niece of Sir James Thornhill the painter. He entered the employment of the East India Company in 1769, and served as judge-advocate and paymaster during the expeditions against Gujarat and Bharuch in 1771. In the following year he left the service of the company and returned to Europe. He visited Portugal and was presented to the court, of which he gives a curious account in his Historical Memoirs ; and in the north of Europe he made the acquaintance of several Danish nobles who had been exiled for their support of the deposed Queen Caroline Matilda , sister of George III . Among them were notably baron Frederik Ludvig Ernst Bülow (spouse of Anna Sofie Bülow ), and count Ernst Schimmelmann (son of Caroline von Schimmelmann ). [1] Wraxall at their suggestion undertook to endeavour to persuade the king to act on her behalf. He was able to secure an interview with her at Celle Castle in September 1774. His exertions are told in his Posthumous Memoirs. As the queen died on 11 May 1775, his schemes came to nothing and he complained that he was out-of-pocket , but George III took no notice of him for some time. In 1775 he published his first book, Cursory Remarks made in a Tour through some of the Northern Parts of Europe , which reached its fourth edition by 1807, when it was renamed A Tour Round the Baltic . In 1777 he travelled again in Germany and Italy. As he had by this time secured the patronage of important people, he obtained a complimentary lieutenant's commission from the king on the application of Lord Robert Manners , which gave him the right to wear uniform though he never performed any military service. He published his Memoirs of the Kings of France of the Race of Valois , to which he appended an account of his tour in the Western, Southern and Interior Provinces of France. In 1778 he went again on his travels to Germany and Italy, and accumulated materials for his Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw and Vienna (1799). In 1780 he entered Parliament for Hindon in Wiltshire , then for Ludgershall on 3 April 1784 in the Tory interest. He was still a supporter of Pitt when he was elected for Wallingford on 16 June 1790. He was defeated at a by-election in March 1794 in favour of Sir Francis Sykes, bart, and immediately began work on his French history in order to publish it the following year the beginning of a History of France from the Accession of Henry III to the Death of Louis XIV , but it was never completed. Little is known of his later years except that he was made a baronet by the Prince Regent in 21 December 1813. His Historical Memoirs appeared in 1815, when he subsequently removed to Wraxall House, Charlton Kings , near Cheltenham. Both they and the Posthumous Memoirs (1836) are very readable and have real historical value. Wraxall believed that the government of the day, furious at his truthfulness, was behind a libel action which sent him to prison for three months in 1816. Hence the posthumous publication of the later memoirs. He died suddenly at Dover on 7 November 1831, whilst travelling to Naples. [2] Wraxall married Miss Jane, daughter of Peter Lascelles, [3] in 1789. He was survived by two sons, Lieutenant-colonel William Lascelles Wraxall, second baronet (1791–1863), and Lt. Charles Edward Wraxall RA (1792–1854), the father of Sir Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall (1828–1865), who was a miscellaneous writer. [2] Henry B. Wheatley From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Henry Benjamin Wheatley FSA (1838–1917) was a British author , editor , and indexer. His London Past and Present was described as his most important work and "the standard dictionary of London". [1] Contents 1 Life 2 Works 2.1 Articles 2.2 Books 2.3 As editor 3 References 4 External links He was a posthumous son of Benjamin Wheatley, an auctioneer, and his wife Madalina; the bibliographer Benjamin Robert Wheatley was his brother, and passed on expertise. [2] Wheatley was Assistant Secretary to Royal Society of Arts , 1879-1909; founding member (1903) and President of the Samuel Pepys Club , 1903-1910; Vice-President of the Bibliographical Society , 1908-1910, and its President 1911-1913. [3] In 1909 he was the President of the Sette of Odd Volumes, an English bibliophile dining-club. [4] [5] "Folk-Lore Terminology" . Folk-Lore Journal . 2 : 340–347. 1884. "Celebrated Birthplaces: Samuel Johnson at Lichfield" . The Antiquary : 233–239. December 1884. "Post-Restoration Quartos of Shakespeare's Plays" . The Library . Third Series. 4 (15): 237–269. July 1913. Of Anagrams: A Monograph Treating of Their History from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time . Williams & Norgate, 1862. "Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall, or, A ramble from Haymarket to Hyde Park , 1870 What is an Index? , 1878 Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In , 1880, 1st edition; online text, 5th edition, 1907 from hathitrust.org The Bibliographer , 1884. How to Form a Library , 1887 The Dedication of Books to Patron and Friend , 1887 How to Catalogue a Library . Published by Eliot Stock 1889. Remarkable bindings in the British Museum , 1889 London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions . John Murray, 1891. Reliques of Old London , George Bell & Sons, 1896. (descriptions of buildings with lithographs by Thomas Robert Way ) How to Make an Index , 1902. The Story of London , [Mediæval Towns Series] 1904 [6] Literary Blunders , 1905 Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britain Tongue by Alexander Hume at Project Gutenberg , 1865; 2nd edition , 1870 Editor, Books in Chains by William Blades (includes Wheatley's introduction and brief bio of Blades, whom he knew), 1892