Gladstone, William Ewart

W. E. GLADSTONE: Autobiographica [and] Autobiographical Memoranda.

Edited by John Brooke and Mary Sorensen. In four volumes. Volume I: Autobiographica. Pp. viii+264(last colophon), frontispiece portrait, appendices, index; Volume II: Autobiographical Memoranda 1832-1845. Pp. xvi+294, frontispiece, index; Volume III: Autobiographical Memoranda 1845-1866. Pp. xviii+294(last blank), appendices, index; Volume IV: Autobiographical Memoranda 1868-1894. Pp. viii+166, appendices, table of sources, index; all roy. 8vo; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrappers, the first two volumes price-clipped, Volumes I & III faded, Volume I with tape mark near foot of backstrip, tiny split to top edge of front panel Volume II, with slight signs of sticker removal at foot of front flap same volume, small puncture to front panel of Volume III near backstrip; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns, earlier owner's commercial bookplate (name inked out) on upper free endpaper Volume I, the upper hinge starting Volume I, a couple of the outer leaves a trifle offset, a little faint foxing; Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1971;1972; 1978; 1981. First editions. Royal Commission of Historical Manuscripts, The Prime Ministers' Papers series. Item #180842

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