Broadley M Editor (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. boards are shelf rubbed, edge worn and a bit torn. mild tanning. light marks. well bound. fair copy.[S.N]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Very Good. Pictorial laminated boards. 125 pages. Slight wear to edges of covers. Price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Binding is very good in illustrated laminated boards. Spine ends and corners all very good. Text pages and eps are all very clean with no markings or other inscriptions. No dust jacket. Despatched same or next working day in protective packaging.

Laminated Boards. Condition: Very Good. 127pp;; 270 x 210mm.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB (from which the scandalous Broadley is unaccountably absent). 2pp, 12mo. On bifolium of grey paper. Tears to the second leaf (not affecting signature) have been unobtrusively repaired with archival tape, and its blank reverse carries a thin remnant of the mount. One postage fold. Addressed to 'My Dear Broadley' and signed 'Ernest Hart'. Having talked over Broadley's 'brilliant sketch' (no doubt written for Edmund Yates's newspaper The World, of which he was de facto editor) with his wife, they have agreed to ask him to 'modify the impression that our society is exclusively medical or [?] by adding to the sentence wh. speaks of Clarke Wells Lister &c. meeting at W[impole] St. the leading provincial medicos', after words such as "these latter make the acquaintance perhaps of Tenniel . Du Maurier & Sambourne or of Leckie, Seeley & Ray Lankester," whom I grasp as representing the amusing & the serious sides of art & literature'. He concludes: 'As a matter of fact we rarely ever have more than 1/3. doctors, or of any one set at a dinner.' Broadley was a renowned autograph collector as well as " barrister, author, company promoter and social figure. He is best known for being the defence lawyer for Ahmed 'Urabi after the failure of the 'Urabi Revolt." [Wikipedia].