The Life and Times of William Ewart Gladstone by J. Ewing Ritchie.

Title: The Life and Times of William Ewart Gladstone. New and Complete Edition in Five Volumes.
Author: J. Ewing Ritchie.
Publisher: William Mackenzie: London, Edinburgh and Dublin. 
Published Date: 1899
External Size: 27cm x 20.5cm
 
A complete five-volume set of this work which 'aims at furnishing a complete record of his life and achievements, with examples of his most brilliant oratorical efforts. It is illustrated with a series of high-class steel engravings, comprising portraits of Mr Gladstone at the most important stages of his career, and of those eminent statesmen...with whom he was brought into immediate contact, and with views of the most interesting places with which he was associated, reproduced by a modern process which combines the faithfulness of the photograph with the permanence and richness of the steel engraving, as well as with numerous wood engravings in the text.' [taken from the introduction to the new and complete edition in division I] 
 
Firmly bound in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front boards and spines. The boards are in very good condition with some light wear to the extremities and minor surface soiling. Pale yellow endpapers which are free from inscriptions. One volume contains a paper receipt for the purchase of volume 3 at 8/6. The contents are clean and bright throughout with only the odd very minor spot of foxing. All edges vibrant gilt.