8vo. 216pp. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in black. Boards marked and bumped to edges and corners, with significant staining to the spine panel. Inner hinge cracking, first gather loosening. Presentation copy, inked inscription to FFEP: 'Gilbert Murray, with the writer's kind regards, 1916.'

With a loosely inserted manuscript note to Gilbert Murray from an Oxford contemporary.

John Atkinson Hobson (1858-1940) was a social scientist, economist, and war correspondent. While Hobson's early work in economics was widely discredited and excluded him from the academic communities, he had a prolific career spanning nearly 50 years, with over 20 full-length works published alongside many other shorter works in various journals. His last work was his autobiography, titled Confessions of an Economic Heretic (1938).

Gilbert Murray (1866-1957), public intellectual and noted classical scholar.