Earlham (Life and Letters series, No. 7)

1st thus. 256pp with publisher's catalogue for the Life and Letters series of books at rear (boards are strong and square, faded around spine and edges, slightly rounded at corners). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a hint of toning to endpapers. Lubbock, novelist and art critic, recalls his childhood summers at Earlham Hall, the home of his maternal kin, the Gurneys - bankers, social activitists and founders of Gurneys, the short-hand writers to the House of Commons, in Norfolk. The prisoner reformer, Elizabeth Fry and novelist George Borrow also grew up at Earlham Hall.