Author: Miss Benger [Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger]
Title: Memoirs of the Life of Mary Queen of Scots
Description: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1823 . Leather. The second edition of female poet and novelist Elizabeth Benger's impressive two volume biography of Mary, Queen of Scots. Scarcely found complete in two volumes.The two volume second edition of this work, published in the same year as the first edition.With a portrait frontispiece, and one facsimile text plate to volume I. Collated, complete.A poet, biographer and novelist, Elizabeth Benger authored biographies of such figures as Elizabeth Hamilton, John Tobin, Elizabeth of Bohemia and Anne Boleyn.With the former owner's inscription of E. B. Northcliffe, dated 1881, to the verso of each front free endpaper. In half calf bindings, with marbled paper covered boards. Rubbing to back strips, joints, and back strip heads and tails, with significant rubbing to volume number labels. Head of rear joint of volume II starting, with board firmly held. Inscriptions to verso of front free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, but with instances of significant spotting to first and last few leaves, to plates, and to pages surrounding plates. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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