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Modern Parliamentary Eloquence : The Rede Lecture Delivered Before the University of Cambridge, November 6, 1913
by Earl Curzon of Kedleston
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London, UK: MacMillan and Co, 1913. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 80pp, indexed. In red cloth-covered boards, blind ruled, with gilt lettering (boards a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine tips, small nick in cloth on mildly sunned backstrip) Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Elegant bookplate on the front free endpaper indicating the volume once belonged to Fionn Murrough Manning O'Brien, the noted magazine marketing executive. Only a small portion of this Lecture was delivered at Cambridge. The whole is published in this volume, as a more comprehensive study, tracking the history and development of parliamentary eloquence and rhetoric from the earliest times but focussing on the latter part of the 19th century and the early 20th century, with compelling assessments of the talents of leading parliamentarians of the times, such a such as Parnell, Asquith, Redmond, the Earl of Rosebery, Winston Churchill, Bonar Law, etc. Slim 8vo.
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- Title
- Modern Parliamentary Eloquence : The Rede Lecture Delivered Before the University of Cambridge, November 6, 1913
- Author
- Earl Curzon of Kedleston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Impression
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Co
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- parliament, members of parliament, westminster, house of commons, house of lords, prime ministers
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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