PRINTER TO THE HOUSE: The Story of Hansard.
With a foreword by The Rt. Hon W. S. Morrison. Pp. xvi+272, frontispiece portrait, plus 7 plates, folding genealogical tree, 4 facsimiles (3 full page), bibliography, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed, bottom fore-corners faintly bruised; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, the lower hinge starting, scattered light foxing; Methuen & Co Ltd, London, 1952. First edition. *Luke Hansard (1752-1828) 'came as a young journeyman printer of 17 from Norwich to London with a single guinea in his pocket and built himself solid fame and fortune . . . . He printed the Journals, Bills, Reports and Papers of the House of Commons, while his eldest son, Thomas Curson Hansard, specialized in the less remunerative printing of the Debates. The descendants of both were ultimately vanquished in the prolonged struggle with the Stationery Office for the control of the printing of the House' [Foreword]. Item #178246
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