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The secret history of the White-Staff, being an account of affairs under the conduct of some late ministers, and of what might probably have happened if Her Majesty had not died.
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DEFOE, Daniel (1661?--1731)
[The secret history of the White-Staff. Part 1]
The secret history of the White-Staff, being an account of affairs under the conduct of some late ministers, and of what might probably have happened if Her Majesty had not died.
London (Place), printed for J. Baker,, 1714.
71, [1] p. ; 17.9 cm. (8º)
Anonymous. By Daniel Defoe. Part 1 of a three-part work. 'The White Staff' is Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford. Defoe's celebrated defence of his one-time patron Robert Harley, who had just resigned the white staff of his office of Lord Treasurer and was facing Whig demands for impeachment on a charge of high treason, triggered a swarm of tracts attacking Lord Oxford's Jacobite intrigues. A second part was published later in the same year (q.v.), surveying Harley's clever handling of the Scottish Jacobite peers (by having them sent up to Parliament), followed by a third in 1715 (q.v.) dealing with a variety of subjects. Harley repudiated these tracts and Defoe denied authorship, but Oldmixon and other opponents immediately recognized them as his handiwork; they are no doubt the tracts referred to in a letter from to Defoe to Harley (August 3, 1714), 'vindicateing your Lordshipps person and conduct and exposeing your enemyes.' In this edition of part 1 the title-page ornament contains a sun. At foot of imprint: '(Price One Shilling.)'. ESTC t71947; Furbank and Owens 165; Moore 280.
Copy Notes Bound (1) with parts 2--3 and twelve further short publications on the same and other subjects. Part of a uniformly bound 48-volume set of works by or attributed to Defoe which on the evidence of endleaves variously watermarked '1814', '1808', etc. was presumably assembled around 1810--15.
Binding C19th half calf, marbled-paper boards, gilt-tooled spine direct-lettered in gilt 'Defoe's Works' and 'Hist. Of The White Staff Mitre & Purse'.
Reference Number 798
Additional Names Oxford, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of (1661--1724); Oxford, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of (1661--1724)
[The secret history of the White-Staff. Part 1]
The secret history of the White-Staff, being an account of affairs under the conduct of some late ministers, and of what might probably have happened if Her Majesty had not died.
London (Place), printed for J. Baker,, 1714.
71, [1] p. ; 17.9 cm. (8º)
Anonymous. By Daniel Defoe. Part 1 of a three-part work. 'The White Staff' is Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford. Defoe's celebrated defence of his one-time patron Robert Harley, who had just resigned the white staff of his office of Lord Treasurer and was facing Whig demands for impeachment on a charge of high treason, triggered a swarm of tracts attacking Lord Oxford's Jacobite intrigues. A second part was published later in the same year (q.v.), surveying Harley's clever handling of the Scottish Jacobite peers (by having them sent up to Parliament), followed by a third in 1715 (q.v.) dealing with a variety of subjects. Harley repudiated these tracts and Defoe denied authorship, but Oldmixon and other opponents immediately recognized them as his handiwork; they are no doubt the tracts referred to in a letter from to Defoe to Harley (August 3, 1714), 'vindicateing your Lordshipps person and conduct and exposeing your enemyes.' In this edition of part 1 the title-page ornament contains a sun. At foot of imprint: '(Price One Shilling.)'. ESTC t71947; Furbank and Owens 165; Moore 280.
Copy Notes Bound (1) with parts 2--3 and twelve further short publications on the same and other subjects. Part of a uniformly bound 48-volume set of works by or attributed to Defoe which on the evidence of endleaves variously watermarked '1814', '1808', etc. was presumably assembled around 1810--15.
Binding C19th half calf, marbled-paper boards, gilt-tooled spine direct-lettered in gilt 'Defoe's Works' and 'Hist. Of The White Staff Mitre & Purse'.
Reference Number 798
Additional Names Oxford, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of (1661--1724); Oxford, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of (1661--1724)