First edition. Small 8vo. 45pp. Cream stapled wraps in yapp edges, printed in black. Cover design by John Banting. The Hogarth Letters No. 7, of a series of 12. 1/2500 copies published. Penned amidst the Great Depression, the last volume in the series traces the progressive degeneration of the notion of Providence through the ages.
Presentation copy warmly inscribed by the Author to Bethel Solomons (1885–1965). Born to a prominent Jewish family, the recipient was a founding member and first president of the Liberal Synagogue in Dublin. A doctor by profession, he was Master of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin and subsequently served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Light edge-wear and age toning to wraps, fore-edges slightly foxed, else Fine.
[Woolmer 333; Hutchinson A12]