MACAULAY: Britain's liberal imperialist.
Pp. xvi+272, 8 plates, coloured pictorial endpapers, notes, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black papered boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; The Bodley Head, London, 2013. First edition. *Biography of 'one of the towering intellects of Victorian Britain . . . . his meteoric journey from child prodigy to Whig parliamentary orator, playing a major role in the passing of the Great Reform Act of 1832, then imperial administrator and liberal reformer in India, and later Cabinet minister, revered elder statesman and famed historian back in Britian' [wrapper blurb]. Item #176492
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