Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.75 x 5'75 inches. xii + 309 pp. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, with minor edge wear and sunned spine; otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by 20 pages of black and white plates and by text figure. Decorated by title and half title page vignette and by tailpiece vignette. Pictorial endpapers. Biography of George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquis of Kedleston (1859-1925), under whose viceroyalty (1899-1905), the British Raj in India is often considered to have reached its apogee. This controversial account by Indian author, Nayana Goradia. examines the psychological effects of Curzon's youth on his career and reveals not only a sadomasochistic streak, but also a narcissism that worked as much against him as his notorious temperament (based on Library Hub catalogue entry).