Memoirs of a contemporary : being reminiscences by Ida Saint-Elme, adventuress, of her acquaintance with certain makers of French history, and of her opinions concerning them, from 1790 to 1815, translated by Lionel Strachey.
Ida Saint-Elme (1778-1845)
Category
Books
Date
1903
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222067
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv,[1], 237,[1] p., [44] leaves of plates : ill., ports ; 23 cm. Provenance: Twentieth-century gilt stamped monogram on upper board with initial 'E' against a rose inside a viscount's coronet and framed by a double C. [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart Viscount Castlereagh, and 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century full green cloth, gilt monogram on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine. Gilt-top, marbled endpapers. Bookbinder's ticket on verso flyleaf "Bagguley,Newcastle-under-Lyme".
Makers and roles
Ida Saint-Elme (1778-1845) Strachey, Lionel, 1864-1927