Author: Lady Dacre
Title: Tales of the Peerage and the Peasantry
Description: London, Richard Bentley, 1835. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition, from copac, of Lady Dacre's Tales of the Peers and the Peasantry. Edited by Lady Dacre, Barbarina Brand, the publication is thought to have been written by Arabella Jane Sullivan, Lady Dacre's daughter. Sullivan also produced three volumes on her recollections of being a chaperon in the early nineteenth century. One of the most accomplished women of her time, Lady Dacre extremely suffered at the early death of Arabella, her only child. Including tales about Winifred, Countess of Nithsdale, the Hampshire Cottage, and Blanche. Complete in three volumes. In a quarter cloth binding with paper bound boards. Externally, sound with handling marks to boards. Light rubbing to spine. Bumping and wear to spine and extremities. Hinges straining but sound to vol I and III. Contemporary ink annotation to rear pastedown of vol III. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

Keywords: Tales Lady Dacre Aravella Jane Sullivan Winifread Lady Dacre None


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