Lay Sermons

254pp, with very elegant colour portrait frontispiece of Margot Asquith after Edmund Dulac. In green cloth boards (marked, gilding has run, giving a glittery look to the cloth, gently rounded at ends of a sunned spine). Previous owner’s name on tanned front free endpaper, small bookseller’s ticket on rear tanned endpapers, some faint, occasional spotting on first and last few leaves, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Margot Asquith, a staunch opponent of Women’s Suffrage, was the wife of British Prime Minister H H Asquith. In this collection of essays she offers life lessons populated with encounters of notable people of the time.