Albert Spicer 1847 - 1934 A Man Of His Time / By One Of His Family

Albert Spicer 1847 - 1934 a man of his time / by one of his family. London: Simpkin Marshall Ltd., 1938. Hardback, VG, in clipped dustjacket, slightly tanned to spine. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. Frontispiece b/w portrait. 85pp., contents clean and bright. Untrimmed pages. "The book was printed by the Chiswick Press, Ltd., on Mould Made Paper from the mill of Messrs. Arnold & Foster . using Eric Gill's Perpetua type" (publishers endnote). Sir Albert Spicer, 1st Baronet PC (16 March 1847 – 20 December 1934) was an English businessman and Liberal Party politician. When his father died in 1888, Albert inherited the paper company James Spicer & Sons (since 1922 Spicers Ltd) with his brother James, transforming it into the largest and most productive paper company in the world. He was created a Baronet in 1906, and served as Member of Parliament for the Monmouth Boroughs from 1892 to 1900, and for Hackney Central from 1906 to 1918. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.