First edition, first printing. Signed by the Marquess of Zetland. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Portrait frontispiece. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with a little offsetting to the endpapers are otherwise clean throughout.
Signed and dated by the author "Zetland / 1932" in black ink on the front endpaper. Scarce thus. The 2nd Marquess of Zetland, who was at the time of publication was serving the British colonial administration of India as a provincial governor, wrote this biography the British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator at the request of Cromer's eldest son Rowland.
Stock code: 23729
£95