Annotations by A.E. Housman. Church (Winston Spencer)

Annotations by A.E. Housman. Church (Winston Spencer). Annotations by A.E. Housman. Church (Winston Spencer). Lord Randolph Churchill. London: Macmillan and Co., 1907, second edition, from the library of A.E. Housman with his bookplate and numerous sardonic pencil annotations, frontispiece and plates as called for, bookplate of Lord Elton of Headington, original cloth, gilt, somewhat faded. Several pencil annotations throughout the book. For example, after a sentence that mentions Lord Randolph 'visited South Africa' Housman inserts 'and was preparing to rat'. Another passage about a Mr. Brodrick having not been included in government 'as his talents deserved', Housman underlines the sentence and comments 'they didn't '. London: Macmillan and Co., 1907, second edition, from the library of A.E. Housman with his bookplate and numerous sardonic pencil annotations, frontispiece and plates as called for, bookplate of Lord Elton of Headington, original cloth, gilt, somewhat faded

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