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ASQUITH, Herbert Henry (1852-1928). Ancient Universities and The Modern World. Glasgow: MacLehose and London: Macmillan, 1907. 8°. Original grey wrappers. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Ottoline Morrell from the Author, Jan 1907'. With autograph letter signed to Philip Morrell from the newly appointed Prime Minister, 20 Cavendish Square, 16 April 1908, 3 pages, 8vo. Asquith writes from his home address to say that 'there is not really enough for a second private secretary to do to make it worth your while', but hoping to find him some other post; and another (1908), declining an invitation.
ASQUITH, Violet. Autograph letter signed to Philip Morrell, 10 Downing Street, 15 December 1912 4 pages, 8vo, on her 'deeply rooted distaste for bazaars'.
ASQUITH, H. H. The Pocket Asquith compiled by E. E. Morton. London: Mills & Boon, 1914. 8°. Original red cloth. PRESENTATION COPY from the author, then Prime Minister, inscribed 'Ottoline Morrell May 1914' and with a card dated '10, Downing Street, 9 May 1914' thanking her for an enjoyable evening and for books. This may have been the evening he dined with Henry James at the Morrells' house (Edel, Henry James, V, p.514). 'We have laboured unceasingly, and I think I may say not without success to promote and preserve the united action of the Great Powers ... the continued preservation not only of peace but of mutual confidence and of a corporate policy has been, and is, of the first moment'. Asquith was to lose his son, Raymond, on the Somme.
ASQUITH, H. H. Some Aspects of The Victorian Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1918. 8°. Original blue wrappers (faded). Romanes Lecture, 1918. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Ottoline Morrell from H. H. Asquith'. The former Prime Minister, who had taken Great Britain into the First World War, lost his seat in the election of 1918.
ASQUITH, H. H. Sir Henry Wotton, with some General Reflections on Style in English Poetry. The English Association: Oxford University Press, 1919. (Numerous ink corrections.) Original grey wrappers (faded). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on upper wrapper 'O.M. from H.H.A.'
ASQUITH, H. H. Occasional Addresses 1893-1916. London: Macmillan, 1918. 8°. Original red cloth (faded at spine), some pages unopened. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'O.M from H.H.A. 1918'.
BIBESCO, Elizabeth (1897-1945). Poems. London: Benn, 1927. 8°. Original black cloth (spine label discoloured, spare label at rear). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Ottoline, with my love Elizabeth 1927'. Bibesco knew the Morrells through her father, H. H. Asquith. Her relationship with Middleton Murry - what Virginia Woolf called 'the Bibesco scandal' - caused Katherine Mansfield great despair.
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ASQUITH, Violet. Autograph letter signed to Philip Morrell, 10 Downing Street, 15 December 1912 4 pages, 8vo, on her 'deeply rooted distaste for bazaars'.
ASQUITH, H. H. The Pocket Asquith compiled by E. E. Morton. London: Mills & Boon, 1914. 8°. Original red cloth. PRESENTATION COPY from the author, then Prime Minister, inscribed 'Ottoline Morrell May 1914' and with a card dated '10, Downing Street, 9 May 1914' thanking her for an enjoyable evening and for books. This may have been the evening he dined with Henry James at the Morrells' house (Edel, Henry James, V, p.514). 'We have laboured unceasingly, and I think I may say not without success to promote and preserve the united action of the Great Powers ... the continued preservation not only of peace but of mutual confidence and of a corporate policy has been, and is, of the first moment'. Asquith was to lose his son, Raymond, on the Somme.
ASQUITH, H. H. Some Aspects of The Victorian Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1918. 8°. Original blue wrappers (faded). Romanes Lecture, 1918. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Ottoline Morrell from H. H. Asquith'. The former Prime Minister, who had taken Great Britain into the First World War, lost his seat in the election of 1918.
ASQUITH, H. H. Sir Henry Wotton, with some General Reflections on Style in English Poetry. The English Association: Oxford University Press, 1919. (Numerous ink corrections.) Original grey wrappers (faded). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on upper wrapper 'O.M. from H.H.A.'
ASQUITH, H. H. Occasional Addresses 1893-1916. London: Macmillan, 1918. 8°. Original red cloth (faded at spine), some pages unopened. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'O.M from H.H.A. 1918'.
BIBESCO, Elizabeth (1897-1945). Poems. London: Benn, 1927. 8°. Original black cloth (spine label discoloured, spare label at rear). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Ottoline, with my love Elizabeth 1927'. Bibesco knew the Morrells through her father, H. H. Asquith. Her relationship with Middleton Murry - what Virginia Woolf called 'the Bibesco scandal' - caused Katherine Mansfield great despair.
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