LORD NUGENT [WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN],.
Some Memorials of John Hampden, His Party and His Times.
Lord Nugent's Some Memorials of John Hampden, His Party and His Times; From the Library of William Tecumseh Sherman
London: Chapman and Hall, 1854.
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Early edition of this biography on the parliamentarian leader John Hampden; from the library of William Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, rest of text block stained red, frontispiece, marbled endpapers, third edition revised. General Sherman’s son Philemon Tecumseh Sherman’s bookplate to the front pastedown. In good condition with a loss to the foot of the spine and splitting to the hinges. General Sherman’s library was inherited by P. T. Sherman, who transferred the library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria “Minnie” Ewing Sherman Fitch, before he died. Until now, this set was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
Some Memorials of John Hampden, His Party and His Times by Lord Nugent (first published 1831) is a major nineteenth-century Whig historical biography that helped revive and shape modern perceptions of the English Civil War. Centering on the parliamentarian leader John Hampden, Nugent presents Hampden as a principled constitutional patriot whose resistance to Charles I—especially over ship money—embodied the struggle for lawful government and civil liberty. Blending narrative history with documentary quotation, the book frames Hampden within a wider political “party” of reformers and situates their actions in the ideological origins of British parliamentary sovereignty.
Some Memorials of John Hampden, His Party and His Times.
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