JOHN MORLEY - The Life of William Ewart Gladstone. In Two Volumes - Vol. 1. 1809-1872

New York, Macmillan, 1905. New Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hadrback Hardback. Previous owners name and date to inside cover. Foxing to end inside covers. Tiny tear to edge of title page. Browning to edges of pages through age. Wear to top and bottom of spine and corners of cloth. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. The material on which this biography is founded consists mainly, of course, of the papers collected at Hawarden. Besides that vast accumulation, I have been favoured with several thousands of other pieces from the legion of mr. Gladstone's correspondents. The diaries from which i have often quoted consist of forty little books in double columns, intended to do little more than record persons seen, or books read, or letters written as the days passed by. From these diaries come several of the mottoes pre-fixed to our chapters; such mottoes are marked by an asterisk.1026 pp.