Gladstone / edited by Peter J. Jagger
1998, First Edition. London : Hambledon Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 pages; xviii, 302p. : illus., facsims,ports. ; 24cm. Based on a selection of Founder's Day Lectures at St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, between 1967 and 1996. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), four times Prime Minister and an MP for sixty-three years, was one of the greatest British statesmen. He was remarkable both for his political impact on Victorian England and for his complex personality. His astonishing energy and command of detail was matched by exceptionally wide reading (it is possible to list over 20,000 books he read) and by his active involvement in many different areas of life, in and out of politics. These essays by leading historians, published in the centenary of his death, demonstrate the many different facets to this extraordinary and idiosyncratic man. Item #224887
ISBN: 1852851732
Price: €25.00