Recollections, John Viscount Morley, Macmillan 1917
Biography of John Morley, First Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838-1923), British Liberal Statesman, Writer and Newspaper Editor (Pall Mall Gazette).
Recollections. By John Viscount Morley, O.M., Hon. Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. In Two Volumes, complete.
Published by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1917. First edition, second impression (the first reprint in December 1917, having been published in November, the previous month).
A good set of two burgundy cloth hardbacks with gilt titles to spine. Some bumping to extremities and some shelf wear and markings to covers. Small area of cloth rippling on Vol I cover. Soundly bound.
Text is bright and clean throughout, with rough cut edges. Some age toning to text block edges. Small booksellers sticker in first pastedown.
Text in English.
Vol I: x + 388pp;
Vol II: vi + 449 + 1pp Publisher's advertisement.
Weight: approximately 1914g (the set - unpacked).
Dimensions:
Each volume approximately 232mm tall x 157mm wide x 40-47mm deep.