Albert Fourth Earl Grey: A Last Word by Begbie, Harold - 1943

Hodder & Stoughton, 1918. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1918. Fourth Edition. 183 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Light foxing and tanning to pages. Much more prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm with noticeable creasing to gutters. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with noticeable tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. Hard. Good. 12mo. 7 1/2".. Good. Lacking dust jacket. Spine sunned. Light foxing to extremeties. 182pp.

Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, 1964. Soft. Fair-. 12mo. 7. Illustrated with in black & white photographs.. Fair-. General wear and marking on covers. Corners little bumped. Foxing and page browning throughout.Previous owner's name inside. 302pp.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1917. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1917. No edition remarks. 183 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Black and white frontispiece. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Some mild liquid stains to front board. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. A Last Word. 8vo, turquoise cloth boards with embossed border on front and black titles on spine. Spine sun faded and worn to head and tail. 183pp with portrait frontispiece. Gift inscription from Lady Wantage (a relative by marriage of Grey) dated 1917 on front free endpaper. Inside is nice and clean. Earl Grey was not originally expected to inherit his title and began his career as a Liberal politician initially in the Commons and then in the Lords, after inheriting the Earldom. He was also a business man as a Director of the British South Africa Company, who reported directly to Cecil Rhodes, after his return from South Africa he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland and finally was Governor General of Canada 1904–1911. Grey took an active interest in Women's suffrage, improvement in slum housing conditions, electoral reform in Canada and other liberal issues of the day. Ahead of his time in many things, but not all.

Hardback. New.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1918. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards. .