[DERBYSHIRE INTEREST] KENNET

[DERBYSHIRE INTEREST] KENNET, WHITE - A SERMON PREACH'D AT THE FUNERAL OF THE RIGHT NOBLE WILLIAM DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE in the Church of All-Hallows in Derby, on Friday Septemb. 5th. MDCCVII. With some memoirs of the family of Cavendish. By White Kennet D.D. Archdeac. of Huntingdon, and chaplain in ordinary to Her Majesty. London, printed by W.B. for John Churchill, 1708. First Churchill edition, 8vo, half-title, red leather spine with marbled boards. The 'sermon' was first published in 1707 as a slim volume of just 16 pages, but here it has been significantly extended, and two-thirds of the book detail the history of the Cavendish family; ROEBUCK, JOHN ARTHUR - HISTORY OF THE WHIG MINISTRY OF 1830 to the Passing of the Reform Bill. London, John W Parker, 1852. 2 volumes, 8vo, an attractive set in tan calf with marbled boards, spines with contrasting red and green labels (3)