[Madness of King George]. History of the Royal Malady, with Variety of Entertaining Anecdotes, to which are added, Strictures on the Declaration of Horne Tooke, Esq., Respecting "Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales," Commonly called Mrs Fitzherbert. With interesting remarks on a regency. By a Page of the Presence [Philip Withers], London: Sold at No. 9 Queen-Street, Grosvenor-Square, and by all the Booksellers in Town and Country. Entered at Stationers-Hall, [1789], near-contemporary manuscript copy, paper watermarked 'J. Green, 1813', [70] pp., written in a fine copper-plate hand on ruled paper of a small notebook, remaining leaves blank, contemporary reversed calf, edge wear, spine deficient, 8vo (Quantity: 1) Apparently an exact transcription of ESTC T11274. After serious bouts of mental illness in 1788-89 and again in 1801, George III became permanently deranged in 1810. His eldest son, the later George IV, acted as Prince Regent from 1811 until his father's death in 1820. This manuscript copy would appear from the dated watermark to have been copied during this final decade of George III's lifetime.
[Madness of King George]. History of the Royal Malady, with Variety of Entertaining Anecdotes, to which are added, Strictures on the Declaration of Horne Tooke, Esq., Respecting "Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales," Commonly called Mrs Fitzherbert. With interesting remarks on a regency. By a Page of the Presence [Philip Withers], London: Sold at No. 9 Queen-Street, Grosvenor-Square, and by all the Booksellers in Town and Country. Entered at Stationers-Hall, [1789], near-contemporary manuscript copy, paper watermarked 'J. Green, 1813', [70] pp., written in a fine copper-plate hand on ruled paper of a small notebook, remaining leaves blank, contemporary reversed calf, edge wear, spine deficient, 8vo (Quantity: 1) Apparently an exact transcription of ESTC T11274. After serious bouts of mental illness in 1788-89 and again in 1801, George III became permanently deranged in 1810. His eldest son, the later George IV, acted as Prince Regent from 1811 until his father's death in 1820. This manuscript copy would appear from the dated watermark to have been copied during this final decade of George III's lifetime.
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