Some writings and speeches of Richard Monkton Milnes, Lord Houghton in the last year of his life, with a notice in memoriam by George Stovin Venables, Q. C.
London: Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1888. 136p., preface, in memoriam, bookplate of Francis Marion Crawford, inscription by the subject's sister, signed H. E. Galway , dated July 1888, untrimmed fore and bottom edges, top edge gilt, very good in rather warped original vellum and gilt, textblock also wavy.
British poet, orator and unrequited suitor of Florence Nightingale. Inscribed to Crawford, a novelist who now is known mostly for a half-dozen short horror tales that appear in nearly every cheap anthology.
Cat.No: 126213
Price: $75.00