CROMER: Being the Authorized Life of Evelyn Baring First Earl of Cromer.

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.