Walrond theodore ed (3 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Very good copy in contemporary half calf over burgundy cloth boards, now slightly scuffed. Spine gilt-tooled with raised bands and a red leather label; panel edges, joints and endbands slightly rubbed along with the spine surface. Endpapers show a suggestion only of foxing, with a small nick to the lower margin of the front free. The main text remains notably strong and clean; a well-preserved example overall. Provenance; Bookplate of Cliff Parfit. Physical description; xii, 467 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; Elgin, James Bruce, Earl of, 1811-1863, correspondence. Governors general, Canada, correspondence. India, history, British occupation, 1765-1947. Diplomats, Great Britain, correspondence. China, foreign relations, Great Britain. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good copy in contemporary half calf over burgundy cloth boards, now slightly scuffed. Spine gilt-tooled with raised bands and a red leather label; panel edges, joints and endbands slightly rubbed along with the spine surface. Endpapers show a suggestion only of foxing, with a small nick to the lower margin of the front free. The main text remains notably strong and clean; a well-preserved example overall. Provenance; Bookplate of Cliff Parfit. Physical description; xii, 467 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; Elgin, James Bruce, Earl of, 1811-1863, correspondence. Governors general, Canada, correspondence. India, history, British occupation, 1765-1947. Diplomats, Great Britain, correspondence. China, foreign relations, Great Britain. 1 Kg.…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A lovely example of the very scarce first edition of this collection of the personal correspondence of James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin. The very scarce first edition.Edited by Theodore Walrond and with a preface from Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, this work compiles personal correspondence and journal entries of James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, who served as Governor of Jamaica, Governor General of the Province of Canada, and Viceroy of India.Walrond, a civil servant and historian, arranged the material chronologically and added contextual commentary. Rebacked, in a tree calf binding, retaining the original endpapers. Retaining half title.With a 1946 prize bookplate to the front free endpaper, awarding the work to Claudius Aurelius Smith.This work covers Elgin's diplomatic and colonial service from the 1840s to his death in 1863, including his controversial actions during the Second Opium War in China, and his tenure in India. Rebacked, in a tree calf binding, with back strip laid down. Externally, excellent. Retaining the original endpapers. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…