Plutarch's Romane Questions (association copy)

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One of five hundred copies only.This 8vo copy with bookplate "Ex Libris Cefntilla", shelf mark ML G3. handwritten inscription on half title reads "Albertina. Earnscliffe. Ottawa January 1893". 170 pages all original softbound in decorated paper wrap. All edges uncut. [The two associations are of particular interest. "Cefntilla" is the ancestral home of the Raglan dynasty. This is the Lord Raglan of the 1854 Charge of The Light Brigade. "Earnscliffe" (Eagles Cliff) is a Victorian manor in Ottawa, Ontario. It is currently used as the residence of the British High Commissioner to Canada, and it was home to Canada's first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. The manor overlooks the Ottawa River just east of the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge. The inscription is one year after publication so our copy started life in the Earnscliffe Library. The house is a National Historic Site of Canada, and the location of a plaque erected by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, but since it is a diplomatic residence, it is closed to visitors. 1n 1893, the date of the inscription, the occupant was the the prime minister's widow: Susan Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe]. N° de ref. del artículo 004860

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