Rev Brooke Lambert (1 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce first edition of this collection of sermons from English cleric Brooke Lambert, with a memoir of his life. First edition. Very scarce work. With an ink inscription from a relative of the author that reads "W. Lambert in memoriam B. L. from Alan Lambert, Feb 1902." A collection of sermons and lectures from Brooke Lambert, an English cleric and social reformer who played significant roles in the Charity Organisation Society, the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants, and as an ally of the settlement movement in London. Edited by Ronald Bayne, an English cleric and biographer. With a memoir written by James Edward Geoffrey de Montmorency, a British lawyer and biographer. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and minor fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Age toning to the endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good. book.