Author: LEVERHULME,LORD
Title: Viscount Leverhulme by His Son
Description: London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in blue cloth with bright gilt title lettering to spine and lettered in bolind to the upper cover in a Very Good + Dust-Jacket with no real chips or tears to the extremities of the dust-jacket,just a little darkening age toning to the spine.Not price clipped priced at 15s net showing to spine.This copy has NO previous owner's names or inscriptions present.Tight copy with no hinge weakness.Complete with 22 black and white Photographic plates.There is a little spotting to the fore-edge of the book.Scarce title with this dust-jacket present and in such wonderful condition.The dust-jacket comes very well protected in a brodart cover sleeve,8vo 325pp First Edition 1st Impression [1927] Viscount Leverhulme was a well respected English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician. Having been educated at a small private school until the age of nine, then at church schools until he was fifteen; a somewhat privileged education for that time, he started work at his father's wholesale grocery business in Bolton. Following an apprenticeship and a series of appointments in the family business, which he successfully expanded, he began manufacturing Sunlight Soap, building a substantial business empire with many well-known brands such as Lux and Lifebuoy. In 1886, together with his brother, James, he established Lever Brothers, which was one of the first companies to manufacture soap from vegetable oils, and which is now part of the British multinational Unilever. In politics, Lever briefly sat as a Liberal MP for Wirral and later, as Lord Leverhulme, in the House of Lords as a Peer.. Very Good+ .

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