STRACHEY, Lytton. Elizabeth and Essex. A Tragic History. London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. 8°. Half title, half tone portrait frontispiece and 5 plates (some very light staining). Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket (torn at foot of backstrip with loss, corners frayed with slight loss). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “To D[ora] C[Arrington] from Lytton. Nov 22nd, 1928.”