By Algar Labouchere Thorold
London   Constable and Company
10" by 7" xxi [4], 2-513, 2pp
The first edition of this sympathetic biography of controversial political figure Henry Labouchere, the man responsible for the first law in the United Kingdom to criminalise homosexuality.
By Algar Labouchere Thorold

1913 The Life of Henry Labouchere

London   Constable and Company
10" by 7" xxi [4], 2-513, 2pp
The first edition of this sympathetic biography of controversial political figure Henry Labouchere, the man responsible for the first law in the United Kingdom to criminalise homosexuality.
£49.00
: 2kgs / : 801F8

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First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of this biographical study of the life of politician, writer, publisher and theatre owner Henry Labouchere, written by his descendant, Algar Labouchere Thorold.

A controversial figure even in his day, he is now most remembered for the Labouchère Amendment, which for the first time criminalised all male homosexual activity in the United Kingdom.

Opposition from Queen Victoria as well as from senior Liberals ensured that he was never given a ministerial position. He became increasingly unpopular because of his opposition to the Second Boer War, and resigned from politics in 1906, when he left Britain and retired to Italy.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and colour facsimile plate. Collated, complete.

With former owner's inscriptions to the front free endpaper.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Light spotting to fore edge of text block. Former owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.

Very Good

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