Gentleman Radical : A Life of John Horne Tooke, 1736-1812 (International Library of Historical Studies Series)
xiv, 298pp, central section of black and white photographic plates. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on front and spine. Small blemish on front board. Top edge tanning. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Top rear of dust jacket sun bleached. 8vo. Draws on previously untapped manuscript sources in Britain and America, and contemporary newspapers and periodicals in studying the life and times of the unrivalled polemicist and brilliant conversationalist who was the only man in England to be imprisoned for supporting the American Revolution.