Author: Antonia Fraser
Title: Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832
Description: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of this volume concerning the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832, signed by the author Antonia Fraser. The first edition, first impression of this work. Award-winning historical author Antonia Fraser narrates the story of the two-year period leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, with vivid descriptions of both Whig and Tory personages including Lord Grey, Lord Althorp. A brilliant narrative that reads like a political thriller. With plates both in colour and in black and white.Signed by the author to the title page. Complete with the original dust wrapper, unclipped. Featuring Lord Carrington's (1919-2018) armorial bookplate to the front free endpaper. British Conservative Party politician who served from 1970 to 1988 as defence secretary, foreign secretary, chairman of British General Electric Company, and secretary general of NATO, he played an important role in the negotiating of the Lancaster House Agreement, which resulted in the creation of Zimbabwe. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with only minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Lord Carrington's armorial bookplate to the front free endpaper. The dust wrapper is unclipped and very smart, pricing sticker to the front fly-leaf, with only light soiling to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.

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