ROSEBERY, Lord (1847-1929). Lord Randolph Churchill, London, 1906, 8vo, original green buckram. FIRST EDITION, ANNOTATED TWICE AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN.

ROSEBERY, Archibald Philip Ambrose, 5th Earl of (1847-1929).  Lord Randolph Churchill. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. 8vo (189 x 130mm). Half title, title printed in red and black. Original green buckram lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (without a dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate); E. T. Cook 1906 (signature on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION, ANNOTATED TWICE AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN. On p.167 ([?]commenting on Randolph Churchill's Parliamentary diatribes against Gladstone, although the context does not make the subject of Eden's censure clear), Eden writes: "Rubbish! bad manners is always bad manners and is more excusable towards a prig than towards a scoundrel - Mr Gladstone [illegible words]"; with a further illegible pencil inscription on the rear free endpaper, and a few other passages highlighted.