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London, Constable and Company, 1913, xxiv 513pp portrait and plates, original linen binding, gilt lettering on spine, very good and clean copy. Henry Du Pré Labouchère (9 November 1831 – 15 January 1912) was an English politician, writer, publisher and theatre owner in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. He is now most remembered for the Labouchère Amendment, which for the first time criminalised all male homosexual activity in the United Kingdom.