rogers william 1913 (4 Ergebnisse)

Provenance: bookplate of Ronald Giles Daubeny. Good copy bound in contemporary leather-backed, marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Gilt-blocked leather label to spine. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Some foxing to prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 4 pages, 398 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (including facsimiles) (some color). Subjects: Travel. Sepulchral monuments England West Country. Somerset (England) Description and travel. Dorset. Devon. Geography British Isles General. 3 Kg.

Lyttelton was Gladstone's private secretary during three of his terms as prime minister. The recipient Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1864-1944, son of the editor of the economist Thorold Rogers) is not named, but the item is from his papers, and was written while he was Secretary of the Liberal Publication Department, a position to which he was appointed in November 1891. 2pp, 12mo. Signed 'Spencer Lyttleton.' In good condition, lightly aged and folded for postage. Begins: 'Dear Sir / I am afraid I cannot ask Mr Gladstone again to sit for his photograph according to your suggestion in the letter to Mr H. Gladstone [the prime minister's son Herbert]. It is a process he particularly dislikes, & the moment is specially unfavourable as it was only yesterday that he was taken by Messrs. Valentine.' As 'most admirable portaits' of Gladstone 'exist & can very easily be procured', Lyttelton does not see the necessity of another. He concludes: 'Your photographer is quite at liberty to take what views he wishes of the Castle & grounds.'.

This attorney and politician succeeded Herbert Brownell Jr. as attorney general under President Eisenhower in 1957, serving until 1961; in 1969 he became President Nixon's secretary of state, serving until 1973 when Henry Kissinger took over. PS, heavy stock 8" X 10", n.p., n.y. Near fine. Handsome matte finish head-and-shoulders soft-focus portrait of Rogers, circa 1970, signed boldly by him in black ink on the blank lower margin. A choice image from the height of his career.

framed. Zustand: near fine. First Day Cover honoring former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles signed by - Dean Rusk, Dean Achenson and William Rogers.