The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G., Edwin Hodder, 3 Volume set, 1886

Biography of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, 1801-1885. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852-1855. He was a British Tory politician, social reformer, and philanthropist.

The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G., by Edwin Hodder, 3 Volume set, complete.

Published by Cassell & Company, limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1886. Printed in London. First edition - all 3 volumes dated to 1886.

A good set of blue (a dark teal) hardbacks in original Publisher's cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Bindings are bumped, rubbed and marked, and a bit shaken, with some give in the spine. Endpapers are split at inner hinges.

Text is bright and clean throughout with some occasional light scattered spotting. There is also spotting to endpapers. A few pages still uncut at top edge. A very readable set in imperfect bindings. 

Text in English.

Vol I: xx, including guarded portrait frontispiece + 525pp + (16pp) Publisher's advertisements; 

Vol II: ix, including guarded portrait frontispiece + 527pp + (16pp) Publisher's advertisements; 

Vol III: xi, including guarded portrait frontispiece + 548pp (Including Index) + (16pp) Publisher's advertisements. 

Weight approximately 3.3kg (the set - unpacked).

Dimensions: 

Each volume typically 230mm high x 160mm wide x 45mm deep.