Author: HUGHES, SPENCER LEIGH. ("SUB ROSA").
Title: The English Character.
Description: London: T.N.Foulis, 1912. 1st edition. Pp.300/4(publisher's catalogue), tipped-in colour frontispiece + 15 further tipped-in clour plates reproduced from oil paintings by Frederick Gardner, page edges rough-cut, illustrated owner's bookplate featuring an owl (Frank Spicer) to inside front board, gift message to front free endpaper. Vellum boards with gilt title to front and spine, boards slightly soiled. G+. ** "Hughes began working life as an engineer in the firm of Ransomes, Sims & Jeffries of Ipswich but went on to make his reputation as a journalist with the publication The Morning Leader, for which he wrote for many years a column under the title of 'Sub Rosa'. His articles dealt in a light and witty fashion with current topics, political and other, and he continued writing it for some time after the Morning Leader merged with the Daily News in 1912. Hughes came to be known professionally and in political circles as 'S.L.H' and was regarded a successful Press Gallery journalist". (wiki).

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