Title: Portrait of an Unknown Victorian                                                                    

Author: Ralph Hale Mottram                               

Publisher: Robert Hale and Company, London                                     

Edition: First Edition, First Printing 

Date Printed: 1936

Description: A nice example of the first printing of the first edition, nicely signed for Katie Cooper by the author to the half-title page (see picture). Original red cloth gilt hardback. No dustwrapper. 286 pages. Light wear to corner-tips and spine-ends (see pictures). Light browning to page edges and prelims.  Binding sound and square. A nice copy of this scarce book.

R H Mottram was a novelist and banker, closely associated with Norwich, where there is a sculpture dedicated to him. He was a conservationist at a time when this was seen as anti-modern and unfashionable. He is probably best known for his novel trilogy set in the First World War, The Spanish Farm.

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