A short history of the British Commonwealth : in two volumes / by Ramsay Muir
Ramsay Muir (1872-1941)
Category
Books
Date
1920
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3059413
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. ; 23cm. Provenance: v.1 inscribed on flyleaf "Stamford December 1920" [i.e. Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976)]; inscribed beneath half title, v.1: "To combine freedom with unity is the ultimate problem of politics. This is an attempt to analyse the greatest of all experiments in the combination of freedom and unity. Ramsay Muir, Dunham Massey 5.ii.21". Loose inserts (v.1): autograph letter signed from the author to Lady Stamford [ie. Penelope Grey, Countess of Stamford (1865-1959)], at Buxton, 17th Dec. 1920, after visiting Dunham; press cuttings of reviews for each vol., Times Literary Supplement, 9.xii.20; Manchester Guardian, 22.i.23; death notice of Muir, Manchester Guardian, 5.5.41. Binding: publisher's red cloth, gold lettered spines.
Makers and roles
Ramsay Muir (1872-1941), author