JEREMY WILSON'S COPY
Life of Lord Lloyd.
London.
Macmillan & Co., 1948.
First edition.
8vo.
x, 317pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, and a further seven photographic plates. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Endpapers foxed. From the library of the late Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), the authorised biographer of T. E. Lawrence, with his distinctive inked ownership inscription to FFEP.
The first edition of a biography of politician and colonial administrator George Ambrose Lloyd, first Baron Lloyd (1879-1941), notable for his his service in North Africa during the First World War where he befriended T. E. Lawrence. The foreword was provided by Winston Churchill.
£ 50.00
Antiquates Ref: 23983
