[STEPHANIE FELICITE COMTESSE DE GENLIS]: THE AFFECTING HISTORY OF THE DUCHESS OF C - WHO WAS CONFINED NINE YEARS IN A HORRID DUNGEON UNDERGROUND WHERE LIGHT NEVER ENTERED, A STRAW MATTRESS BEING HER ONLY RESTING PLACE AND BREAD AND WATER HER ONLY SUPPORT CONVEYED HER BY MEANS OF A TURNING BOX BY HER INHUMAN HUSBAND WITH THE MANNER SHE WAS PROVIDENTIALLY DISCOVERED AND RELEASED BY HER PARENTS, Derby, Thomas Richardson circa 1830, hand coloured folding frontis, 24 pages, contemporary quarter calf marbled boards worn, morocco gilt bookplate of Edward Hailstone (1818-1890) on front paste down, later bookplate of Harry Twyford Peters (1881-1948) on ffep, scarce, 2 copies only on COPAC
Sold for £150
[STEPHANIE FELICITE COMTESSE DE GENLIS]: THE AFFECTING HISTORY OF THE DUCHESS OF C - WHO WAS CONFINED NINE YEARS IN A HORRID DUNGEON UNDERGROUND WHERE LIGHT NEVER ENTERED, A STRAW MATTRESS BEING HER ONLY RESTING PLACE AND BREAD AND WATER HER ONLY SUPPORT CONVEYED HER BY MEANS OF A TURNING BOX BY HER INHUMAN HUSBAND WITH THE MANNER SHE WAS PROVIDENTIALLY DISCOVERED AND RELEASED BY HER PARENTS, Derby, Thomas Richardson circa 1830, hand coloured folding frontis, 24 pages, contemporary quarter calf marbled boards worn, morocco gilt bookplate of Edward Hailstone (1818-1890) on front paste down, later bookplate of Harry Twyford Peters (1881-1948) on ffep, scarce, 2 copies only on COPAC
Auction: Two Day Book Sale, 7th Jul, 2022
Bi-monthly specialist two-day Books Auction
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