Author: HODDER, EDWIN.
Title: The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. as Social Reformer.
Description: London: James Nisbet & Co Limited, 1897. 1st edition. Confined to the Social Reformer aspect of his career, this book gives a brief resume of the important movements to which he devoted his life "standing out pre-eminently as the champion of the defenceless and oppressed, and winning for himself a name that will lve for ever in the annals of this country as the Friend of the Working Man, and THE great Social Reformer of the nineteenth century." Pp.195, portrait frontispiece, some pages uncut. Dark green ribbed cloth, gilt title to front and spine, publisher's label to front board. VG.

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