Tory Lives from Falkland to Disraeli

First edition, first printing.  xii, 156pp, with portrait plate frontispiece and four further monochrome plate illustrations.  Mid blue cloth-covered boards boards with gilt lettering to spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little faded in margins, gently pushed at spine ends.  Internally some faint and occasional spotting on first and last few leaves else neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original worn dust wrapper, chapped at edges, chipped round spine, some shelf wear visible on verso.

A collection of studies of the lives and work of early leaders of the British tory party including Falkland, Rochester, Shippen, Wyndham, Burdett and ending with Benjamin Disraeli (18-4-1884).