The Life of Lord Beaconsfield (The Statesmen series)

xvi, 220pp.  Pink cloth-covered boards with black decorations and lettering.  12mo.  Cloth is worn, faded all over and sunned on spine, mottled on rear panel, gently rubbed and rounded on corners and spine ends.  Slight lean.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Lord Beaconsfield, perhaps better known as Benjamin Disraeli was a politician, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and key player in the creation of the modern Conservative Party.  A friend and trusted adviser to Queen Victoria, his second term in office was dominated by the Eastern Question - the slow decline of the Ottoman Empire and the desire of other European Powers such as Russia to expand into its place.