Buy this book on-line LONGFORD, LORD - with an introduction by Elizabeth Longford: : A HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF LORDSLONDON.WILLIAM COLLINS SONS &CO;. LTD.,1988. ISBN 0002177989X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,3/4 wrap-around colour pictorial painting artwork illustrated dw/dj (front,spine and portion of rear + separate colour photograph) with brown,purple and black lettering to front+ spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no major nicks,tears or splits present - lower corner tips minisculely rubbed with reciprocal loss.Top edges with slight, faint dust flecks,fore-edges with light thumbing but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – near pristine,could almost appear unread,other than the residual thumbing.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean b/w historical, illustrated scenic view reproductions to either set of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,9+224pp [paginated] includes Prelude by Elizabeth Longford, introductions I+II,XII (12) chapters and Final words,16pp of historial+contemporary b/w illustration reproductions and b/w photographs in 4 blocks of 4pp apiece, interspersed throughout the text and the book,an End Note,a select bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,separate contents+ illustrations lists/tables,and acknowledgements.
Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/ state of preservation and presentation.
Lord Longford has sat in the house of Lords for forty years.For three years he was its Leader,and he was deeply involved in the last major proposals for its reform,in 1968.There is no one better qualified to write a history of the House of Lords which combines cholarship with entertainment and the perceptions that only an insider can bring.Lord Longford's book is not only highly readable,but it is the first history of the House - one of the institutions which has been most influential over the last thousand years in shaping the British constitution and way of life - to be written at a popular level this century.Lord Longford balances his discussion of the constitutional role of the House with an account of some of the major noble houses (like the House of Norfolk) who have sat there.And he concentrates for the last quarter of the book on the twentieth century,to which he can bring the caustic,witty and human illumination of his own experience and style.
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