Author: Horace Bleackley
Title: The Story of a Beautiful Duchess
Description: London, Archibald Constable and Co, 1908 . First edition. Leather. The third impression of Horace Bleackley's very scarce biography of society hostess and celebrated beauty Elizabeth Hamilton, in a signed Bumpus binding. The third impression of this work, published the year after the first edition. Very scarce in all contemporary editions.In a full calf signed binding from Bumpus.Illustrated with a frontispiece and five further plates. Collated, complete.English fiction writer and historian authors a biography of Elizabeth Hamilton, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon. She was a celebrated Anglo-Irish beauty, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Charlotte, and a society hostess.With the bookplate of L. R. Rawlings to a front blank. In a full calf signed binding from Bumpus, with gilt detailing. Boards bright. Back strip age toned, with rubbing to back strip head, and light rubbing to joints. Head of front joint starting, with board firmly held. Bookplate to a front blank. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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