Author: Thorold, Algar Labouchere
Title: The Life Of Henry Labouchere
Description: Constable & Co, 1913, 1st edition. Cloth, VG. xxiv+513pp, b/w frontis, tipped in facsimile letter, index, top edge gilt, cloth rubbed & bumped & a little grubby, a fair copy, internally fine. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Biography of the English politician, journalist & theatre owner Henry Du Pré Labouchère [ 1813 - 1912 ]. Most noted for his journalistic dispatches from Paris during the 1870 Siege & for the Labouchere Amendment to the 1885 Criminal Law Ammendment Act which saw the criminalisation of almost any contact between homosexual men.

Keywords: biography, politics, theatre, stage, paris commune, french history, journalism, liberal party, british history