The Age of Peel and Cobden (Harold Wilson's copy)

pp 374 Near fine bound in clean blue cloth with bright gilt spine lettering, a few spots to the text block edges, the pages are crisp and clean. Laid in: a white card with manuscript notes concerning Harold Wilson's memories of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, latest date 1975, headed "G and S book 400". This book comes from the private collection of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his wife Mary who died recently at the age of 102. During his lifetime Harold Wilson kept the book in the Ashley Gardens mansion flat in Westminster that the couple shared until his death in 1995. After she lost her husband Mary Wilson continued to live in the couple's flat, surrounded by a lifetime's accumulation of books and memories until 2016.