Trimblerigg: A Book of Revelation

London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. Hardback. .First Edition (first printing). Very Good. No DW. Deckled edges. 8vo. over 7¾-9¾" tall. 320pp. Cloth-backed original patterned beige and green batik boards with a blue cloth spine panel. The gilt stamped title on the spine has faded slightly but is still perfectly legible. Rolled spine. Tissue-protected colour portrait frontispiece drawing of Jonathan Trimblerigg by Edmond X. Kapp. Lightly foxed endpapers but otherwise in very good condition. Former owner's atractive bookplate inside front cover. This owner was Sir Cuthbert Morley Headlam, 1st Baronet, DSO, OBE, TD, DL who was a British Conservative politician. "A novel concerning the temptations of an English clergyman, who always carried the NewTestament in his coat-tail." This piece of political satire, written by the brother of A.E.Housman who was described in the Dictionary of National Biography as 'a pioneer feminist, pacifist, and socialist, although too impetuous, insensitive, and muddled to be altogether effective.' 'Trimblerigg' is a satirical novel based on the Jekyll and Hyde theme which, the publisher claims, will 'we fear, scandalize many, infuriate a few, and cause unholy delight to others.' It was directed at the Liberal political leader - a thinly masked famous political giant, Lloyd George, as can be clearly seen in the frontispiece drawing. .