Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
HEARN, Lafcadio
PRESENTED TO THE LSE BY SIR WILLIAM BEVERIDGE
Published: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co., 1905
Stock code: 52084
Price: £540.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, neat uniform contemporary stamp on front free endpapers; blue cloth, upper boards ruled and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, gilt tops, backstrips chafed at heads and tails else a very good, bright, clean copy.
SIGNED BY BEVERIDGE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER OF EACH VOLUME. THIS COPY WAS PRESENTED TO THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE BY SIR WILLIAM BEVERIDGE; EACH VOLUME CARRIES THE LSE BOOKPLATE RECORDING THE PRESENTATION. Sir William Beveridge (1879-1963), politician and economist, is widely regarded as the architect of the UK's Welfare State. His pioneering study 'Social Insurance and Allied Services' (the 'Beveridge Report') was presented to parliament in 1942. Its far-reaching proposals, implemented by the post-war Labour government, resulted in the creation of the UK's Welfare State. WORKS SIGNED BY BEVERIDGE ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE.