Juventus Mundi: The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age [with ALS]
signed first edition Hardcover
1869 · London
by Gladstone, William Ewart
London: Macmillan and Co., 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Later half calf and brown cloth, gilt-stamped lettering in second spine compartment (5 raised bands); 12mo; pp. xxviii, 551, with folding map AND a tipped-in two-page autograph letter signed, dated 28 December 1869, on Hawarden Castle, Chester, stationery. Some light scuffing and bumping along spine and edges of boards; a little faint foxing to prelims and terminals. In the brief ALS, Gladstone thanks his correspondent (Reverend J. Cusper? Casper?) for a recent letter and article. (Inventory #: JC14055)