Rothschild

1896 · 050805 — London Uk: Macmillan And Company 1896. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Tissue Guarded Plates. 269 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. Near Fine Slight Usage Gilt Brilliant Cloth Clean With Slight Rubbing No Fraying. Front Hinge Partly Cracked Former Owner's Name Byers Signed At Belfast. Baron Ferdinand De Rothschild 1839 - 1898 Also Known As Ferdinand James Anselm Freiherr Von Rothschild Was A British Jewish Banker Art Collector And Politician Who Was A Member Of The Prominent Rothschild Family Of Bankers. He Identified As A Liberal Later Liberal Unionist And Sat As A Member Of Parliament In The House Of Commons From 1885 To 1898. Ferdinand Had A Younger Sister Alice Who Like Her Brother Was A Keen Horticulturalist And Collector. She Inherited Ferdinand's Property Waddesdon Manor In 1898 After He Died And Likewise Continued The Tradition Of Using The House As A Place To Keep His Impressive Collections. In This Book Rothschild Demonstrates The Facility Of The Accepted Elites In Talking At Length About Powerful Yet Dispicable People Yet Never Criticizing Their Grievous Faults. <br/> <br/> Macmillan And Company hardcover