Book Details
| Author: | Graham, Henry: |
| Title: | The Mother of Parliaments. |
| Published: | London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1910. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 16 - Law |
| Description: | First edition. With twenty illustrations. xii, 314 pp + 30 pp ads. Frontispiece - tissue guarded photograph of Houses of Parliament, & 19 other b/w plates. "The history of England's Parliament is the history of the English People". Besides dealing with the pure historical aspect of Parliament, its birth and growth, and gradual development and extension of its power, its priviliges and procedure, the author devotes chapters to "Parliamentary Eloquence", "Dress and Deportment", "Strangers", "Parliamentary Reporting" and other matters of general interest. Bottom edge untrimmed. Browning on free eps and spots of foxing on prelims and intermittently at edges of text. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decorative panelling on spine. Tight binding. Overall condition VG+. In Good dust wrapper - top of spine torn. |
| Book Number: | #1736 |
| Price: | € 178.00 |
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