THE LIFE OF RICHARD COBDEN
. In two volumes. Pp. xvi+468+xii+486(last colophon), frontispiece portrait, appendix; demy 8vo; dark green cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, boards with triple blind rule borders, the boards a trifle canted and faintly scuffed, edges lightly rubbed and sometimes slightly bruised, a couple of tiny chips to head and foot of spines, the spine cloth slightly wrinkled Volume II; uncut; hinges starting, small chip to top fore--corner pp. 365/6 Volume II, a little (mainly light) foxing; Chapman & Hall, London, 1881. First edition. *Association set, inscribed to C. E. Mathews by Ellen M. Cobden, dated 22nd October 1881, on the half-title page of Volume I. Later from the library of Waldorf and Nancy Astor, with their Cliveden Library label above C. E. Mathews' bookplate on the upper pastedowns. Most recently from the collection of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label below the Mathews bookplates. Ellen Millicent Cobden, one of Richard Cobden's daughters, was a writer, radical campaigner and suffragist who was for a time married to the artist Walter Sickert. Solicitor and keen mountaineer Charles Edward Mathews (1834-1905) was a founder and President of The Alpine Club, the First President of the Climbers' Club, and a President of the Birmingham Shakespeare Society. Item #179099
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