THE SILVER SALVER. The Story of the Guinness Family.
Pp. xii+256(last blank), 24 plates, 16 pages of genealogical charts, appendix, notes, index; med. 8vo; green art. leather, spine and upper board with maroon art. leather title labels lettered and decorated in silver; price-clipped dust wrapper, flaps slightly foxed; the free endpapers very faintly offset, a couple of pale spots of foxing; Granada, St Albans, Herts, 1981. First edition. *With the armorial bookplate of an Australian-born member of the family, E. J. D. Guinness on the half-title page and several family-related interleaves bound in (mainly photocopies of family photographs, annotated in ink). 'The story spans 250 years, from the founder of the family, an Anglo-Irish rent collector, down to the present generation of Gunnesses, headed by the 3rd Earl of Iveagh. It tells not one saga but three: that of the "Lee" Gunnesses who created the world's biggest brewery, the "Rundell" Gunnesses whose merchant banking empire now straddles the globe, and the "Grattan" Gunnesses whose adventurous, sometimes hair-raising careers as evangelical missionaries in the 19th century provide one of the least publicized but in many ways most colourful chapters of the Guinness story' [wrapper blurb]. Item #183447
Price: $60.00