Thomas Barnes of The Times - A Biography by Derek Hudson

With Selections from his Critical Essays Never Before Reprinted 

Edited by Harold Child 

Cambridge at the University Press - 1943 - First Edition

Condition - Acceptable
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Outside of the Book
  • Hardback
  • Boards - Scarlet red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine
  • Dust Jacket - Red with black lettering
  • Binding Condition - No issues
Boards, spine, page edges and the dust jacket show signs of age and shelf wear. (A previous owner has lightly sellotaped the inside of the jacket so as to hold it together. See photo.)

Inside of the Book
  • Handwritten Annotations - None 
  • Ex-libris label on the fly leaf
  • Number of pages - 196
  • Tanning from age - inside front and rear of the book
Additional Points of Interest 
  • Thomas Barnes was editor of The Times from 1817 to 1841 and is regarded as the first independent editor in English journalism
  • His greatness was apparent enough to his contemporaries; yet Mr Hudson's is the first biography
  • Mr Harold Child has ... introduced and edited, for the second half of this book, a selection from Barnes' own writings. Those who now read some of these vigorous essays for the first time may agree that, in gaining a great editor, England lost a great writer. (Taken from the inside front flap of the dust jacket.)