Curiosities of Literature
Edited, with Memoir and Notes, by his Son, The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Chancellor of Her Majesty's Exchequer
G. Routledge & Co., 1858.
New edition. 8vo. Three volumes. Original publisher's green cloth, decoration stamped in blind and lettered in gilt on the spine. Vol I with portrait frontis of Isaac Disraeli, Vol II with a fold out facsimile letter by Alexander Pope, Vol. III with portrait frontis of Benjamin Disraeli. A very good set, gilt a little dulled and with some rubbing. Bookplate of Sir Edward Watkin to each front pastedown.
A collection of essays concerning "literary, artistic, and political history, of critical disquisition and biographic anecdote." Amongst a wide range of subjects, Disraeli, a noted bibliophile himself, wrote an insightful essay on the exigencies of book collecting. Enormously popular from its first publication 1791 until well into the 20th century, Curiosities went through a number of editions before his son, Benjamin Disraeli [later British Prime Minister], edited it and added short biography of his father. This set belonged to Sir Edward Watkin, British MP and one of the great Victorian railway entrepreneurs.
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