W. Laird Clowes — The Lover&Apos;S Progress

London, Effingham Wilson, 1881 . First edition. Hardback. Illustrated with a frontispiece, this is the very scarce first edition of W. Laird Clowes's late 19th century collection of poems. A very scarce first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece.A collection of poems from early in the literary career of Sir William Laird Clowes, a British journalist and historian whose principal work was The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, a text that is still in print.Among the works Clowes is best remembered for is the controversial nonfiction 'Black America: A Study of the Ex-Slave and his Master' (1891), which predicts a twentieth-century race war. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Shelf wear to back strip tail, with back strip and board perimeters age toned, and handling marks to boards. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .