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8vo., Second and Best Edition, half-title and title lightly spotted; dark blue cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, backstrip duled (but all lettering wholly legible), covers worn and faded else a firm, clean copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF SIR REGINALD SPENCE WITH HIS FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN and subsequent institutional bookplate on front free endpaper. Revised and corrected version of the first edition published earlier in the same year. Sir Reginald Spence, prominent merchant, philanthropist and educationalist, spent much of his career in India. He was a prominent wine merchant (Master of the Worshipful Company of Distillers 1949-1950) and an eminent freemason (District Grand Master of Bombay and Northern India); the Reginald Spence Lodge was founded in his memory. A fervent educationalist, he co-founded Barnes School in Devlavi, one of the finest institutions of its type in Western India where a school house now bears his name. A NOTABLE ASSOCIATION COPY