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Hay, John Drummond and De Winton, Francis W. (preface).
A Memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay Sometime Minister at the Court of Morocco Based on Journals and Correspondence.
Publisher: John Murray Albemarle Street, London;
Date of Publication: 1896
Stock Code: 15433
First edition. Octavo, pp., xvi, [2], 407, [1], plus tissue-guarded photographic frontispiece, 2 plates, and 2 illustrations within text, as called for. Publisher’s original dark blue cloth; titled in gilt to spine and to upper board; author monogram within Arabesque design to upper board; ochre patterned end-papers. Spine faded to brown; a little mottling to cloth; binding otherwise strong and square. Toning to edges of contents; otherwise internally clean and bright. A very good copy. The scarce memoir of the British Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Morocco. Drummond Hay served as a diplomat in Morocco for more than forty years, retiring in 1886. £185.00