HIGGIS,MATTHEW JAMES WITH A MEMOIR BY SIR WILLIAM STERLING MAXWELL - ESSAYS ON SOCIAL SUBJECTS
London, Smith,Elder & Co 1875 Mounted original album photographs (2) of the author . Octavo full gilt calf faux raised bands extra gilt to compartments and red gilt spine label gilt rev. and dent. (spine nearly detached/marked to lower corner of covers) combed marbled EPs and bookplate ducal estate of Wrest Park (lxxii)+252pp *A 72page memoir precedes the mainly horse and hunting recollections of the author. He inherited a sugar estate in Guiana in the West Indes and wrote several papers on sugar & slavery & education, often under the pseudonym of Jacob Omnium.
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