The Young Melbourne
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1939. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 276pp. stated first edition. biography of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), Whig politician, Home Secretary, and twice UK Prime Minister, and his marriage to Caroline Lamb (who famously conducted an affair with Lord Byron and wrote a thinly veiled Gothic novel about her marriage and the affair). Book VG: mild shelf wear, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight / DJ VG- : age wear/toning, mild edge and corner wear, NOT clipped ($3.00). Item #1654
#01717.
Price: $18.00
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