LYNCH, Arthur. Prince Azreel, 1911 1st Ed Inscribed with personalised poem to Keir Hardie. Signed by author dated 1911.
TITLE
Prince Azreel; A Poem With Prose Notes
AUTHOR
LYNCH, Arthur
ILLUSTRATOR
PUBLISHER
LONDON: Stephen Swift & Co Ltd
YEAR
1911
FORMAT
Hardcover / Cloth
EDITION
1st Edition
DESCRIPTION
Cream cloth spine with blue cloth board and gilt titles. Gilt upper text block edges. Deckled page edges. Pages: 180, 12pp catalogue. Size: 8vo 20cm by 13.5cm
SIGNED
Inscribed and Signed by Author. Inscribed with personalised poem to Keir Hardie - see provenance. Signed by author dated 1911.
LANGUAGE
English
PROVENANCE
James Keir Hardie (1856-1915)
SUMMARY
Prince Azreel; A Poem With Prose Notes
1911, 1st Edition
PROVENANCE
James Keir Hardie
James Keir Hardie (1856-1915).
Scottish trade unionist and politician, founder of the Labour Party, and served as its first parliamentary leader from 1906 to 1908. Born in Newhouse, Lanarkshire. From the age of 10 he worked in the Lanarkshire coal mines. A talented public speaker and was chosen as a spokesman for his fellow miners. In 1879, Hardie was elected leader of a miners' union in Hamilton and organised a National Conference of Miners in Dunfermline. Led the miners' strikes in Lanarkshire (1880) and Ayrshire (1881). He turned to journalism to make ends meet, and from 1886 was a full-time union organiser as secretary of the Ayrshire Miners' Union. Hardie initially supported William Gladstone's Liberal Party, but later concluded that the working class needed its own party. He first stood for parliament in 1888 as an independent, and later that year helped form the Scottish Labour Party. Hardie won the English seat of West Ham South as an independent candidate in 1892, and helped to form the Independent Labour Party (ILP) the following year. He lost his seat in 1895, but was re-elected to Parliament in 1900 for Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. In the same year he helped to form the union-based Labour Representation Committee, which was later renamed the Labour Party. After the 1906 election, Hardie was chosen as the Labour Party's first parliamentary leader. He resigned in 1908 in favour of Arthur Henderson, and spent his remaining years campaigning for causes such as women's suffrage, self-rule for India, and opposition to World War I. He died in 1915 while attempting to organise a pacifist general strike. Hardie is seen as a key figure in the history of the Labour Party.
AUTHOR
Arthur Alfred Lynch (1861-1934).
Irish Australian civil engineer, physician, journalist, author, soldier, anti-imperialist and polymath. He served as MP in the UK House of Commons as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, representing Galway Borough from 1901 to 1902, and later West Clare from 1909 to 1918. Lynch fought on the Boer side during the Boer War in South Africa, for which he was sentenced to death but later pardoned. He supported the British war effort in the First World War, raising his own Irish battalion in Munster towards the end of the war.
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CONDITION
BOOK
Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Toned spine cloth. Soiling to rear board with lighter soiling to lower edge of front board. Tightly bound with toned and spotted intact endpapers. Strong hinges. Large inscription to ffep being long personalised poem to Keir Hardie. Clean pages. Soiled text block edge.
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