[Rarebooks] FS: Nice Little fine press item printed by Charles Whittingham for the Hammersmith Publishing Society

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Offered today:

John William MacKail (1859-1945).

Homer: An Address Delivered on Behalf of the Independent Labour Party.

Small 4to. (48) pp. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Text printed on laid 
paper; text clean, un-marked, top edges un-opened. Quarter vellum, 
boards, printed spine title; binding square and tight, some light foxing 
to top edge, gentle bumps to corners, but in all a very clean, bright 
copy.

John William Mackail (1859-1945) was a Scottish man of letters and 
socialist, now best remembered as a Virgil Scholar. He was also a poet, 
literary historian and biographer. John Mackail was Oxford Professor of 
Poetry and President of the British Academy. He was a friend of William 
Morris and published works on Virgil, the Latin poets, the Icelandic 
sagas, and Shakespeare.

With the bookplate of Charles Williston McAlpin. Charles Williston 
McAlpin graduated from Princeton University in 1888 and was secretary of 
Princeton University from 1901 to 1914 and served as Chairman of the 
Council of the Friends of Princeton University Libraries. He was a 
member of the board of managers of the Presbyterian Hospital of New 
York, and a friend of President Woodrow Wilson.

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