WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES:
by ARCHER, THOMAS:
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- Hardcover
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Blackie & Son, London, n.d.. 4vol set, ex lib, minimal markings, illus, brown cloth w. black & gilt dec stamps & titling, red edges, green eps, vol1 336pp + 4pp ads, vol2 336pp + 2pp ads, vol3 336pp + 4pp ads, vol4 352pp incl 18pp index, 4pp ads, VG- (all plates present, cocked, sl edge wear & surface loss, internal separation at joints and several locations in contents but binding holding and no sections loose, sl foxing to prelims and spasmodically throughout, sl rubbed sunned & soiled) An attractive 4-vol set in original if sl rubbed boards with excellent contents in sl shaky binding, 32 portraits all present.
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- WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES:
- Author
- ARCHER, THOMAS:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son, London, n.d.
- Keywords
- gladstone biography thomas archer british parliament social political disraeli earl grey wellington lansdowne brougham melbourne peel oconnell russell aberdeen derby ashley cobden bright palmerston fowell buxton sidney herbert denman lyndhurst the napiers
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