2-361-768 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman, 19th century (1956). Disraeli (1804-1881) was twice Prime Minister of Britain, first in 1868 and then again between 1874 and 1880. Under his Conservative government, the British Empire expanded and in 1876 he conferred on Queen Victoria the title Empress of India. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.