Add this copy of The Queen`S Chameleon the Life of John Byrom to cart. $13.83, good condition, Sold by Booksalvation rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Manchester, LANCASHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1994 by Jonathan Cape.
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Good in good dust jacket. Outline: -John Byrom (1691-1763) was an enigma a playboy a philosopher a poet and possibly a spy. On the one hand a pillar of the Establishment Byrom was also an active and secret Jacobite who conducted a wild affair with Queen Caroline. At least one of Byrom`s close associates went to the gallows to protect his good name in high society while George II unaware of the traitor at the gate granted him by Act of Parliament a monopoly license top teach his new system of phonetic shorthand to leading political and social figures who might have caused to conceal their communications. Not content with being a member of the Royal society with Isaac Newton as well as the Freemasons. Byrom formed a secret society known as the Cabala Club through which he amassed a collection of mystical drawing and architectural designs in his search for a new model of the universe. Through the poems he published in the leading journals of the day he planted oblique references to his seditious ideas and yet he survived again and again returning to the bosom of his loving family tormented in his later years by the trail of duplicity he had left in his quest for a more just and honest mode of thought than the prevailing Hanovarian mores. -> the publisher of this HARDBACK book is Jonathan Cape The date of this copy is 1994 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK.
Add this copy of The Queen's Chameleon the Life of John Byrom to cart. $14.99, like new condition, Sold by JWMah rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Jonathan Cape.
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Fine in Fine (-) jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" (UK) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in Fine (-) dust jacket. Hardcover, 276pp, index, B&W illus. Byrom was an English poet, the inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand and later a significant landowner. He was possibly a spy and a secret Jacobite who had an affair wit Queen Caroline, wife of George III. Byrom invented a system of phonetic shorthand and taught it to leading politicians and o=social figures. He formed a secret society vcalled the Cabala Club. (2.0 JM LVR 206/b1.
Add this copy of Queens Chameleon to cart. $42.95, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Jonathan Cape Limited.
