SIR ROBERT WALPOLE'S POETS. The Use of Literature as Pro-Government Propaganda, 1721-1742.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With one black and white illustration. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with some light dust marks to the spine joints. The contents, with just the occasional foxing spot to the fore-edge of the text block, are otherwise clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper, which is a little toned to the edges, and without loss, or tears.

'This book is the first comprehensive study of the literature published in support of Walpole's administration, and explores important pro-government themes, and also explains how the propaganda network was organized and what precisely the Old Corps Whig leadership hoped to achieve' (publisher's blurb).