The diary of Frances Lady Shelley / edited by Richard Edgcumbe

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Shelley, Frances, Lady. The diary of Frances Lady Shelley / edited by Richard Edgcumbe. With illustrations. London: John Murray, 1912-1913. 2 volumes. Vol. 1: 1787-1817; Vol. 2: 1818-1873. Hardback, VG. Blue gilt-decorated cloth, bumped and with shelfwear, mostly to spines; the spine of Vol. 2 is sunned. Vol. 1 is 4th reprint; Vol. 2 is first impression. Vol. 2 has small ownership signature. Both volumes have frontispiece b/w portrait protected by tissue paper. Vol 1: vii, 406pp., 6 b/w illustrations. Vol. 2: vii, 424pp, 7 b/w illustrations. Top edge of the text block in gilt. Some mild foxing to final pages and front edge of text block. Contents clean and bright. If a novelist were looking for a promising theme for an historical romance of Regency times, it would be hard to find anything superior to the story of Frances, Lady Shelley, whose journals, edited by her grandson Richard Edgcumbe, were published by John Murray in 1912. Edgcumbe certainly knew that these private day-to-day recollections would be of immense interest, for, as he says in his Preface, his grandmother was fortunate in having lived in stirring times, and among people who helped to shape the destinies of Europe . Lady Shelley s Journals would scarcely have merited publication had it not been for her own and her husband s great friendship with the Duke of Wellington (History Today). RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1648668055167

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