Author: Elizabeth, Princess Berkeley [Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach; Elizabeth Craven, Baroness Craven]
Title: Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach
Description: London, Henry Colburn, 1826 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this autobiographical work from socialite, author and playwright Elizabeth, Princess Berkeley, sometimes styled Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach. The two volume first edition of this work, published only two years prior to the author's death.Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume.Craven's final work, an autobiography in which she discusses her marriages to William Craven, 6th Baron Craven and later to Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. She also had an affair with the Count of Guines, the French ambassador to London.Lady Craven is best remembered for her travelogues, including 'A journey through the Crimea to Constantinople&apos.Rebacked, retaining the original boards and endpapers.With the bookplate of William Philip Molyneux, Earl of Sefton, to each front pastedown. Rebacked, in full calf bindings retaining the original boards and endpapers. Gilt detailing to back strips. Rubbing to joints and board perimeters. Head and tail of front joints starting, with boards firmly held, and all hinges reinforced with cloth. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Tide marks and discolouration to volume II title page and frontispiece, with pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: The Soldier of Dierenstein; or, Love and Mercy. Letters from a Peeress of England to her Eldest Son A Fashionable Day Elizabeth, Princess Berkeley Letters from a Peeress of England to her Eldest Son Not Stated


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