Title: The Life of the Author of the Letters of Junius, the Rev. James Wilmot D.D. Late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, Rector of Barton-on-the-Heath, and Aulcester, Warwickshire, and one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for that country […]
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Full title:</b> The Life of the Author of the Letters of Junius, the Rev. James Wilmot D.D. Late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, Rector of Barton-on-the-Heath, and Aulcester, Warwickshire, and one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for that country. With portrait, fac similes, &amp;c. By his niece Olivia Wilmot Serres.

</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. ff. 5, pp. [ix]-xcvii, [2], 224, including frontispiece (portrait of James Wilmot, “Taylor sculp[si]t”)), plates, and 3 folded facsimiles. Signatures: a-f8 g2 B-O8 o3. First edition, in original boards. Bookplate inside front cover: “Ex libris Ramsgate monasterii S. Augustini.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olivia Wilmot Serres (1772-1834), landscape painter and novelist, may be the earliest English female forger of any distinction. This work, claiming the authorship of the ‘Junius’ letters for her uncle and guardian James Wilmot (1726-1808), is based on forged documents and testimony, as are her persistent later claims to royal descent through the Duke of Cumberland, brother of George III.

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