Wilfrid Scawen Blunt : a memoir
1961, First Edition. London : Macdonald. Very good cloth library copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Light foxing to edges and prelims; some library marks remain. A well-preserved example overall; internally strong and clean. Item #477772
Physical description; 368 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; Introduction – Queen Victoria's England – Love letters – Sheykh O'Beyd – Imperial decay – Ahmed Arabi the Egyptian – Egyptian bondage – Slavery! – India-the Empire – Ireland – The Crabbet Club – Blunt's beautiful daughter – Arts and a man – Lady Anne – Cross-examination – Squire and Sheykh – The last things. Subjects; Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen (1840-1922) – Biography. Poets, English – 19th-20th centuries – Biography. Travelers – Great Britain – Biography. Great Britain – History – Victoria, 1837-1901 – Biography.
Price: €10.95