The Works of the Right Honourable John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose

Basil Montague Pickering, 1874. Leather Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [ca. 350] pages per volume + plates. Title on spines: Works of J. H. Frere. 'Second Edition Revised With Additions' (title page, volume 1); last 2 volumes edited by W. E. Frere (otherwise with unidentified editor/s); includes the memoir by the author's nephew, Sir Bartle Frere (volume 1), plus bibliographical references; index (volume 1). BMC, volume 9, page 1052, column 466 (originally issued in 3 volumes in 1872). 3 volumes complete; bound in 3/4 dark brown morocco over light brown cockerell boards; gilt-stamped and decorated spines with raised bands, covers ruled gilt, dark gray marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Slight wear to extremities (chiefly lower edges); slight rubbing to covers; frontispiece of volume 1 detached and slightly chipped; slight internal browning and/or foxing (chiefly to edges and preliminaries); else a very serviceable set. Frere (1769-1846), English diplomat and miscellaneous writer; educated at Eton and Caius College, Cambridge; undersecretary for foreign affairs (1799); envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary at Lisbon (1800-02) and Madrid (1802-04); British Minister with the Junta (1808-09); twice refused a peerage, then retired to Malta (1818) and died there; noted as one of the founders of the Quarterly Review, and as a contributor to various anthologies, as well as a translator of several of the plays of Aristophanes.2 Engraved Illustrations / Plates (frontispieces); Few Engraved Decorations (headpieces).