LYTTON STRACHEY. — Eminent Victorians.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 309pp. Black cloth with a slightly tanned and chipped paper spine label. With a tissue-protected frontispiece and five plates. Top edge gilt. The cloth marked, and a little rubbed, bumped, scuffed and frayed at several extremities. Some fox spotting throughout. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. About of a good copy of Strachey's influential and at times gently scathing biography of Cardinal Manning, Dr. Thomas Arnold, General Charles Gordon, and Florence Nightingale (really only the latter emerges with her reputation enhanced). No dust wrapper. Uncommon in the first edition state, although this is perhaps not the nicest example., Good, No Jacket