countess jersey (12 Ergebnisse)

8vo: iv + 48 + [ii] pp. Last leaf carries advertisements for works by Fairburn. In marbled wraps. Text clear and entire. On aged paper with slight wear and fraying, small holes and light stains to first four leaves. Title continues '[.] to which are added, The Q-'s last letter to the K-, Written a few Days before Her M-'s Death, and other Authentic Documents, never before published. | [quotation] I am the Viper that has been secretly wounding you both. | Vide THE COUNTESS's NARRATIVE.' A spurious production purporting to be the work of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey and allegedly addressed to Lady Anne Hamilton, written in support of Queen Caroline. Its popularity is attested to by the fact that it went through at least 31 editions. Copies on COPAC at the Bodleian, LSE, Bristol, Manchester, Dublin, Newcastle and the British Library.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Rosie M.M. Pitman (illustrator). First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in original green satin cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and upper cover and with further elaborate gilt blocked design to the upper cover.All page edges are in gilt and there is one former owner's name present but unobtrusive and to the dark black/grey pastedown.The attractive black and white illustrations are done by Rosie Pitman.Complete with frontispiece and half tilte pag and there are a further 8 illustrations within the book.The backstrip is slightly darkened but the book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and with NO loose leaves.Contents internally remain clean and bright.The work provides the young reader with a series of stories complete in 13 Chapters.Rare title 8vo190pp plus 2 page list of ads at rear.

Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd., Devon no date [c. 1925]. 68 pages. Publisher's light blue cloth. Corner bumped. * Inscribed to the flyleaf: »For Dear Alice/ with best love/ from the part: author/ Emily Ward«.

Second Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; [8], 190, [2] p. : 10 plates ; 8°. Subject; children's literature. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Rosie M. M. Pitman (illustrator). First Edition. Frontispiece and nine plates by Rosie M. M. Pitman. First Edition. 8vo. [200 x 130 x 24 mm]. [4]ff, 190, [2] pp. Bound in the publisher's original light green moiré cloth, the front cover with a large gilt block, the spine lettered in gilt, dark green endleaves, gilt edges. (Joints and corners slightly rubbed, a little out of square). Sporadic light foxing but a very good copy. Ink ownership inscription of Dorothy M. Keyser (1884-1963) of Aldermaston Court, dated 1895. Aldermaston in Berkshire was bought by Charles E. Keyser in 1893 for £160,000. His attention was drawn to the estate by his sister Agnes, who said it reminded her of Sandringham. She went on to become the mistress of Edward VII.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 4pp, 12mo. On bifolium. A thin strip (no more than 1 cm deep) has been cut away at the head of the first leaf, with no loss of text, otherwise in good condition. Folded once. Written a few months after Wallace's return from his duties as Private Secretary to the future King George V on his world tour on HMS Ophir, and during the Second Boer War. Wallace has just been struck by the thought that 'though I returned the Volume on South Africa to the address in Victoria Street' he forgot to give her his opinion of it. 'The author is evidently Dutch in nationality and sentiment. (I mean, of course, Dutch in the South African sense of the term) and he is very proud of the exploits of his countrymen in their struggles with the blacks.' As an example of the author's attempt at impartiality, Wallace gives his account of 'the incident which gave rise to the celebration of "Dingan's Day". About recent events also he tries to be impartial and he is very reticent as to burning questions. See particularly his account of the Jameson raid.' Nevertheless, on reading a great part of the volume, Wallace was in no doubt where the author's 'innermost sympathies tended. His state of mind is I should think very much that of the Cape Dutch under the peach-trees, as graphically described in an article published in the Times last Tuesday.' Wallace's conclusion is that the volume is 'not well fitted for stimulating the Imperial British sentiment in children or young people, but it may be read with advantage by open-minded people of a less tender age'.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Rosie M M Pitman (illustrator). First edition. The scarce first edition of the Countess of Jersey's illustrated children's novel. The first edition of this work, a scarce book rarely seen in commerce. Children's tale by the Countess of Jersey, Margaret Elizabeth Child-Villiers, political hostess, philanthropist, and children's book writer.With illustrations by Rosie M M Pitman. Two leaves of publisher's advertisements to rear. In the original publisher's full doubleur cloth binding, with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Externally with light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities of boards, sunned to boards, back strip darkened. Spine gently cocked forward. Internally, firmly bound. Odd light minor spotting to odd leaf, pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Good. book.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Rosie M. M. Pitman (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this charmingly illustrated children's novel by Margaret Elizabeth Child Villiers, the Countess of Jersey. The first edition of this work, a children's novel by the Countess of Jersey, Margaret Elizabeth Child-Villiers, a political hostess, philanthropist, and children's book writer.Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates by Rosie M. M. Pitman. Collated, complete.With an advertisement leaf to the rear.With a contemporary inscription to the half title head, dated 1896.A delightful children's work. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with discolouration to back strip, with light discolouration and spotting to head of front board. Hinges a touch strained, but firmly held. Former owner's inscription to half title head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with light spotting throughout. Very Good. book.

0. Sprache: Deutschu.

Stahlstich von Ryall nach Parris, London, 1833, 14x13 cm.

1p., on 29 x 7 cm piece of unwatermarked laid paper (probably cut down), with no indication of printer or date. Printed with the long s. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. 64 lines, arranged in eight eight-line stanzas. The first stanza reads: 'BRITAIN! brave and generous nation, | Listen to my plaintive strain, | Tho' exalted be my station! | Day and night I sigh in pain; | Here I came a helpless stranger, | With no friend to take my part, | Braved the stormy ocean's danger, | From home for ever to depart.' She appeals to her 'Good Uncle' (i.e. King George III, whose wife is described as 'your Queen, a pious lady'), asking him how he can stand by and 'Let a shameless woman trample | On decency's offended laws'. (A later reference to 'the Countess' makes it clear that this is Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey.) The last stanza reads: 'There from empty pomp retreating, | Childless mother, widow'd wife! | My lost titles none repeating, | Let me lead a peaceful life. | When you think on my sad story, | Britons, drop a pitying tear! | And fair England's fame and glory | Shall to me be ever dear!' Excessively scarce: no copy in the British Library, or on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat, and no other reference discovered. From the papers of Sir William Hamilton (1788-1877), British Consul at Boulogne-sur-Mer from 1826 to 1873.

See his entry, and hers, in the Oxford DNB. From the papers of her relation Lady Theresa Lewis. 2pp, 8vo. On the first leaf of a bifolium, the recto of the second leaf being addressed by him to 'Countess of Jersey / &c &c &c'. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded for postage. Written in high eighteenth-century style. Begins: 'Madam / If you have receiv'd the slightest amusement from my imperfect composition, I am most highly gratified, and feel myself very sensibly flatter'd by the honor you confer upon me by your condescending to regret the loss, which I have infinitely ye most reason to lament.' He wishes her 'every possible enjoyment' of her 'health and happiness in all your branches', till he has 'ye honor of paying you and Lord Jersey my respects in town'. He will 'not fail to remember any commands you lay upon me'. The valediction, with ornate signature, reads: 'I have ye honor to be, / Madam, / Your Ladyship's most / obedt & obligd hum. Servt / Richd Cumberland'. There is a crude pencil portrait of a man's face - perhaps Cumberland's and perhaps drawn by the Countess - at the bottom right of the recto of the second leaf.