HORATIO BOTTOMLEY.
A biography.
d Pp. [viii]+288(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus 6 plates, index; demy 8vo; maroon boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and scuffed, edges rubbed and split, with a couple of tiny chips; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges slightly foxed; Cresset Press, London, 1955. First edition. *English journalist, newspaper proprietor, Member of Parliament, and public orator Horatio Bottomley (1860-1933) was the editor of the popular magazine John Bull. He was also a swindler who in 1922 was convicted of fraud and sentenced to seven years in prison. Item #182877
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