Belloc, Hilaire. Emmanuel Burden, Merchant of Thames St., in the City of London, Exporter of Hardware: A Record of His Lineage, Speculations, Last Days and Death. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1930. Seventh Edition. [9780]
Orange cloth, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches, top page edge gilt, no dj, 223 pp., publisher's catalogue. 1930 owner's signature on ffep, pencil notes on rear end papers. Good. Hardcover.
A masterpiece of Edwardian fiction, in which Belloc shows that the "decent but weak and naïve British businessman is no match for the cunning international capitalist, [and the story] is given bite by his use of an unctuous, hypocritical narrator, and by his satirical account of the parts played by the self-deceiving aristocracy, Church, and press..." - The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction.