Irish Beauties of the Last (19th) Century by Gerard. Fine Binding 1895 1stEd
by
Frances Gerard
Ward and Downey, London 1895. First edition.
Custom bound in half-calf with leather spine and corners, ribbed spine with gilt spine titles, added marbled endpapers, octavo, 299 pages, in-text illustrations and 5 full page plates with tissue guards.
Mary Molesworth, Countess of Belvedere
Eleanor Ambrose, 'The Dangerous Papist'
The Gunnings; Maria, Countess of Coventry
Elizabeth, Duchess of Hamilton and Argyll
Mrs Travis and the Other Two Daughters
General Gunning and the Story of His Daughter Gunilda
Peg Woffington; Dorothea Monroe; The Three Miss Montgomerys
Elizabeth La Touche, Countess of Lanesborough
Anne Luttrell, Duchess of Cumberland
The Romance of the Coghlans of Ardo
Miss Farren, Countess of Derby
CONDITION: Very Good. (Gilt device at bottom of front board is a bit rubbed. Contents are complete, clean and intact except for a bit of damage and some discoloration at the fore-margins of the original blank front and rear endpapers, signature of original owner on one of the endpapers (George L. M. Campbell, 1897) and a short narrow stain at the fore margin of the last two leaves in the Index.)
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