Claire Clairmont : mother of Byron’s Allegra /. by R. Glynn Grylls
Grylls, Rosalie Glynn, Lady Mander
Category
Books
Date
1939
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 3141755
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 304 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., ports., geneal. table ; 23 cm. Provenance: twentieth-century pictorial bookplate of Ronald Fuller, Merton College, Oxford. Inscribed beneath "from Rosalie 24.5.39". Inscribed on free endpaper: [Greek] R. With Peter Quennell's review of work affixed to same page. Lady Mander's typescript letter signed (4p.) sending volume is affixed to reverse; a prior typescript letter from Lady Mander to Fuller on reading draft (2 leaves), dated 22.9.38, is tipped in at t.p.. Loose inserts: Fuller's typescript letter signed to Lady Mander on reading draft (3 leaves), dated 18.9.38. extracted article: Lorraine Robertson, 'The journal and notebooks of Claire Clairmont: unpublished passages', from Keats-Shelley memorial bulletin (unknown issue, pp.35-48, with facsim. plate); from p.189, typescript letter from Fuller to Lady Mander with comments and suggestions, 2/6/1939. (Loose material stored separately in archive.) Binding: publisher's red cloth, gold lettered spine; with dust jacket.
Makers and roles
Grylls, Rosalie Glynn, Lady Mander