The Anglo-Saxon Review, A Quarterly Miscellany. Edited By Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill. Vol. 1. June, 1899 .

London And New York: John Lane, 1899 .. A very good full leather binding. The boards with intricate gilt decoration. "The cover of this issue of the Anglo-Saxon Review is a facsimile of the binding of Thevet's 'Vies des Hommes Illustres' (Paris: 1584, which was executed about 1604 for James I. King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland." Large 8vo. 11.75" x 7.75" x 1.25". [8pp.]/pp.255[1p.] .Intricate gilt decorated boards. Green leather spine with gilt titles. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Top page edges gilt. Light foxing to page edges, and first few leaves. Armorial bookplate to verso of the front board: "Baron Barrymore", with motto: "Boutey En Avant". Intermittent brown spots to some leaves, otherwise clear English text with 7 full-page monochrome illustrations. VG. * "Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore, PC (Ire) (17 January 1843 � 22 February 1925), was an Anglo-Irish Conservative politician... On the death of Arthur Hugh Smith Barry in 1925, the estate, which was entailed, passed to his brother, James Hugh Smith Barry. On his death, it passed to James Hugh's son, Robert Raymond Smith-Barry. In 1939, the estate of Fota Island and the ground rents of areas was acquired by Arthur Hugh's daughter (from her cousin), Mrs. Dorothy Bell, for the sum of �31,000. On her death, in 1975, it passed to her daughter, Mrs. Rosemary Villiers, and Fota House is now the property of The Irish Heritage Trust." - See Wikipedia ** Contents: Introductory - The Editor; A Note on the Binding of this Volume - Cyril Davenport; The Great Condition - Henry James; A Modern Woman - Elizabeth Robins; Some Consequences of the Last Treaty of Paris - Whitelaw Reid; Letters to Vervaine - E.V.B (The Hon. Mrs. Boyle); Sir Robert Peel - The Earl of Roseberry; Osbern and Ursyne - John Oliver Hobbes (Mrs. Craigie); All The World's Mad - Gilbert Parker; The Battle Of The Nile - Algernon C. Swinburne; Wireless Telegraphy - Oliver Lodge; The Sudan - Sir Rudolf Slatin; A Mezzotint - Frank Swettenham; Selections from the letters of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; An epitaph on Charles James Fox - Earl Grey; Notes On The Portraits Of George Washington, Ann Of Austria, And Mary Sidney, Countess Of Pembroke - Lionel Cust. *** "The Anglo-Saxon Review was a quarterly miscellany edited by Lady Randolph Churchill, and published in London by John Lane. It was short lived, running to 10 volumes, from June 1899 to September 1901. Churchill's son, Winston Churchill, was one of her devoted advisors during the months preceding publication. He suggested that the magazine take as its purpose "to preserve a permanent record of the thoughts and aspirations of our times, which vary as swiftly as light changes on running water, for wiser ages yet unborn." It contained articles by Henry James, Winston Churchill, George Gissing, Stephen Crane, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Robert Barr, Henry Duff Traill, Henry Swinburne,[2] Ethel Rolt Wheeler, Henry Watson Fowler and Frank Swettenham. Each issue was individually decorated in an elaborate pattern of gilt tooling on leather covers. The subscription list included heads of state, royalty, and some of the wealthiest families of Britain and the United States. Many of the magazine's contributors, too, were members of the nobility, officers of the Church of England, members of parliament, titled servants of the crown, and foreign dignitaries. A fictional account of the magazine's creation is provided by Robin Paige in the novel Death at Whitechapel." - See Wikipedia .