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  Rare First Edition of the 1928 report of the Scottish Liberal Land Inquiry Committee; Signed by founder David Lloyd George on a Presentation Bookplate

  [LLOYD GEORGE, David].

  The Scottish Countryside Being the Report of the Scottish Liberal Land Inquiry Committee 1927-1928.

  [Edinburgh]: Published by The Scottish Liberal Federation, 1928.

  First edition of the 1928 report of the Scottish Liberal Land Inquiry Committee. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.  Presentation copy, presented by David Lloyd George on a presentation bookplate affixed to the flyleaf which reads: Presented to Councillor Duncan MacBean with deep appreciation of his assistance as a member of the Scottish Liberal Land Inquiry Committee 1927-1928. "D. Lloyd George." David Lloyd George founded the Liberal Land Inquiry in 1912 as one of the most ambitious reform initiatives of the Liberal government, seeking to confront the entrenched system of land ownership that he believed lay at the root of poverty and social inequality in Britain. Building upon the reformist momentum of his People’s Budget of 1909, Lloyd George commissioned the inquiry to gather comprehensive evidence on the concentration of land in aristocratic hands and its consequences for agricultural decline, rural housing shortages, and low wages among farm laborers. With a typed letter signed by Sir Murdoch MacDonald laid in dated 2nd August 1929 which reads in part: Dear Mr. MacBean, I deeply appreciate the kindness shown by you on Polling day of the General Election by giving the use of your car to bring vot...

  Price: $2,500.00     Item Number: 151324

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