MACARTNEY IN IRELAND 1768-72 : A CALENDAR OF THE CHIEF SECRETARYSHIP PAPERS OF SIR GEORGE MACARTNEY
PRONI, 1978. Hardcover. Quarto, 11.8 in. x 8.5 in., pp. xlix, [1], 404. "Printed in Northern Ireland by W. & G. Baird Limited at Greystone Press Antrim". Illustrated with frontis of George Macartney. Dark blue boards with gilt title to spine. Sunning to top of boards and top/bottom of spine. Typewriter font. Unmarked interior. One inch closed tear to bottom right corner of front free endpaper. Edgewear to dustjacket; sunning to dustjacket spine. Chips to top of dustjacket spine and front corners; bottom one-inch of dustjacket spine missing. Price clipped Protected in mylar. Very Good / Good Only. Item #86177
George McCartney, 1st Earl McCartney KB (14 May 1737 – 31 May 1806), also spelt Macartney, was an Anglo-Irish statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat who served as the governor of Grenada, Madras and the British-occupied Cape Colony.... Appointed envoy extraordinary to Russia in 1764, he succeeded in negotiating with Catherine II an alliance between Great Britain and that country. He was returned in 1768 to the Irish House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Armagh Borough, in order to discharge the duties of Chief Secretary for Ireland. On resigning this office he was knighted. ... He is often remembered for his observation following Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War and subsequent territorial expansion at the Treaty of Paris that Britain now controlled "a vast Empire, on which the sun never sets". (from Wikipedia).
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