One-leg : the life and letters of Henry William Paget, first Marquess of Anglesey, K.G., 1768-1854 /. by the Marquess of Anglesey ...
George Charles Henry Victor Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey (1922 - 2013)
Category
Books
Date
1961
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
NT 3230088
Summary
Bibliographic description
428 p., [21] p. of plates (some fold.) : ill., ports., maps, geneal. tables ; 24 cm. Imperfect: pages removed, passages cut out. Extensive text marking and annotation. Provenance: correction copy of (George Charles) Henry (Victor) Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey (1922-2013). With many corrections, annotations, excisions and cut-outs. Correspondence inserted: p[17]: 2 autograph letters from Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington to Lord Anglesy, May 1961, on reading the book; (p.77) typescript extract from Wylly, Col. H.C. XVth (The King's) Hussars 1759 to 1913, 'Sahagun' song words; typescript extract from Kinglake, The invasion of the Crimea, 1877; news cutting, 'Lord Paget emprisonné ...', La Tribune de Genève, 24 nov. 1967; auograph letter signed from Bernard St. Quintin Wall (19.4.63); (p.[343] transcription of W. Paget memorial in the Governor of Gibraltar's chapel, copied Css. of Pembroke in 1966-7 for Lord Anglesey; numerous page marker index cards with corrections. Bundle of documents, correspondence, and typescript additions inserted at first opening: includes 2 typescript leaves with additional text to be included; French account of an 1878 incident relating to the lost leg, Société d'études historiques de Waterloo; two leaves of typescript copy on Thomas Mann, of Bradford (patent artificial leg maker); typed note from Cobbett "from R. Fulford"; 2 leaves of typescript from "Journal of Thomas Moore"; copies of 2 articles from St. James's Chroncicle, 1811, on Mr. Sadler's balloon; and 1 similar from The Times; press cutting from The Practitioner, No. 1868, article entitled 'Hand an foot prostheses', by A.B. Kinnier Wilson, pp.759-766; correspondence copies with Lucien Gerke, conservator at the Waterloo Luseum, 13.4.91; and John Godwin; with transcript of a letter from Louis Paris to the Marquess of Anglesey, re. the Coene painting of the amputation; another autograph letter signed from Gerald Wellesley (27.8.68); with a French attachment 'A propos de la tombe de la jambe de Lord Uxbridge.' Binding: publisher's quarter yellow cloth, with blue marbled paper boards, gold armorial device embossed on upper cover; gold lettered on black spine block; with dust jacket (in poor condition, badly torn).
Makers and roles
George Charles Henry Victor Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey (1922 - 2013)