CLEOPATRA by Philip Walsingham Sergeant – Hutchinson’s Library of Standard Lives  
About the Book: 
“Cleopatra appeared to me undoubtably to furnish a worthy subject for a biography.”
An aminated and romantic work, entertaining from beginning to end. Judiciously abridged and edited with notes and with a frontispiece portrait.  The standard volumes tell the stories of the lives of those great people in animated and interesting language, and the biographies are intimate in detail and entertaining from beginning to end. They not only deal with the private and public life of each great man or woman in such a manner as to hold the reader’s interest, but the book are invaluable from an educational point of view. They are, in fact, History written in Story form at a poplar price. The library should be considered complete without these in interesting and most instructive volumes.”  
 
Book Type: hard back with rare dust wrapper. 
Genre:  history, biography. 
Edition: 1st Edition 1909 
Published: Hutchinson & Co, 34-36 Paternoster Row, EC4. 
Printed 
Size: 11.5 x 16cm
Pages: 347
A good copy and scarce to find with a dust jacket. 
 
CONTENTS.
Egypt and Rome, Cleopatra’s Father, Cleopatra and Ptolemy XIV, Cleopatra and Caesar, Cleopatra; s Kingdom. The Shadow of Rome, Cleopatra and Antony, The Inimitables, The Break Between Cleopatra and Antony, The Liaison Renewed, The empire of the East, The Prelude to Actium, East Against West, The Die-Togethers, The Ending of a tragedy, Cleopatra the great, Appendix A Genealogy of Cleopatra the Great. Appendix B The Family of Ptolemy Auletes. Principle Dates in Cleopatra’s Life. List of Chief Modern Authorities Consulted. Ancient Authorities Arranged According to Datre. Index
 
Back Story
“The aim of the publishers of Hutchinson’s’ “Library of Standard Lives” is to place within the reach of the great reading public at a popular price, a series of the standard biographies of the most famous men and women who have lived throughout the ages. Each volume is beautifully printed on the best quality paper and contains approximately 384 pages of clear type and a frontispiece portrait and title page on Art Paper and decorative endpapers.  Each biography contains a specially compiled Appendix, Chronology, Notes and a Full Index, and is capably and judiciously edited in a manner which preserves all that is most essential.”
 
17 books in the series to collect.  Napoleon, Queen Elizabeth, Marie Antionatte, Nelson, Empress Jospehine, Cleopatra, Cromwell, Wellington, John Wesley, Madame de Stael, Madame du Barry, Queen Victoria, Lady Hamilton, Sameul Johnstone, Nell Gwyn, George Washington and Mary Queen of Scots. 
 
Biography 
Philip Walsingham Sergeant born 27 Jan 1872 at Notting Hill and died on 20 Oct 1952 at Guildford.  Educated at Trinty College and Oxford University graduate best known for his involvement in the game of Chess and subsequent books on the subject.  Also wrote “The Empress Josephine, Napoleon’s Enchantress,(1908) ” “The Last Empress of the French,(1907) ” Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester.(1899)  Many books on chess including “A Century of British Chess.” As well as more than 20 biographies which he either wrote or was a co-writer. 
 
“We regret to have to report the death, at the age of eighty-one of Philip Walsingham. Sergeant, the author of A Century of British Chess, which we imagine is in most chess libraries. He was the author of several well-known historical books - but we are only concerned here with his chess activities, which included representing Oxford University 1892-5; helping RC Griffith with two editions of Modern Chess Openings; playing for Middlesex, winning the chess championship of the authors' club for several year, and latterly as an honoured member; and occasionally obtaining the championship of the Guildford Chess Club. Our sympathy with his widow and two daughters is sincere. 
 
CONDITION:
Dust Jacket: Good.  Fairly clean. Some creasing and tears to edges.
Boards: Red cloth boards are very good. Minor age related wear, bumping to edges. 
Binding: leaning  
Spine: Bright clean title on spine. Some bumping and wear on board cover ends. 
Pages.  All pages complete. In good condition bright and clean. 
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