Lives of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest; : with anecdotes of their courts, now first published from official records and other authentic documents, private as well as public. / By Agnes Strickland.
Agnes Strickland (1796-1874)
Category
Books
Date
1842 - 1848
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3054307
Summary
Bibliographic description
12 v., plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Imperfect: wanting vols. 1-3. Shelved as a set with vols. 1-2 of "new ed." (1842) and vol. 3 of 2nd ed. (1841). Uniformly bound and shelved with other works by Strickland and with Green's "Lives of the Princesses of England" (London, 1857). Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso in each vol.: 'Brentano's, New York'. Binding: Early twentieth-century half calf, marbled paper over boards; five raised bands; gilt tooled spines; black morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'The queens of England 4[-12]' and 'Strickland'; gilt top edges; marbled endpapers; brown silk ribbon marker in each vol. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso in each vol.: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf'.
Makers and roles
Agnes Strickland (1796-1874), author Elizabeth Strickland (1794-1875), author