Sir Henry Drummond Wolff — Some Notes of the Past

London, Private Circulation [William Clowes], 1892. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this privately published autobiographical volume from Sir Henry Drummond Wolff. A scarce first edition.The work of Henry Drummond Wolff, an English diplomat and Conservative Party politician, who started as a clerk in the Foreign Office.This slim volume details 'three visits to the war in 1870', his personal knowledge of Emperor Napoleon III and of Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères, the English mistress of Louis Henry II, Prince of Condé. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Small paper label to head of front board. Front hinge strained, and slightly tender. Front free endpaper tenderly held to tail only. Internally, generally firmly bound, but with title page a touch tender. Pages clean and generally bright, though a touch age toned. Good . Ill.: None. Good .