First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author's widow on the half-title: "From Mrs Walter Bagehot". Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) married Eliza Wilson (1832–1921), who was the eldest daughter of James Wilson, the founder of The Economist, in 1858. The couple first met when Bagehot was commissioned by James Wilson to write a series of articles on banking. The Bagehots's collected love letters were published by Faber in 1933 and are included in several anthologies of love letters. Posthumously published, this volume collects Bagehot's political biographies of Adam Smith, William Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli and several others. The essays originally appeared in the National Review, the Fortnightly Review and The Economist.
The post Biographical Studies. appeared first on Peter Harrington.