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Victorian Politics, Introspection and Anti-Semitism. A Victorian manuscript journal, kept by a member of the Campbell-Order family of Agryllshire, Scotland, [71]ff, dated from 1878, principally inscribed to recto only, the first entry dated from Edinburgh and demonstrating the author's introspection, further entries reveal an interest in the contemporary politics, 'A certain Liberal journal describe W:m Gladstone as a Titan - & compare him (in opposition) to Prometheus Bound. This probably means that that eminent statesman with all the will in the world to benefit his fellow countrymen. [...] suffering humanity is hindered, baffled, & thwarted by a diabolical Divinity of Jewish Extraction. Lord Beaconsfield [i.e. Benjamin Disraeli] [...]', etc., contemporary quarter-morocco over cloth, rubbed and scuffed, restrained by a clasp, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo
Provenance: Bonhams, Fine Books, Manuscripts, et al., 4th December, 2019, lot 16 (part-lot).
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