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
1841
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3254315
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second edition, with corrections and additions. 12 v., plates : ill., ports. ; 12mo. Imperfect: v. 3 only. Shelved as a set with vols. 1-2 of "new ed." (1842) and vols. 4-12 of 1st ed. (1842-1848). 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: 'Brentano's, New York'. Binding: Early twentieth-century half calf, marbled paper over boards; five raised bands; gilt tooled spine; black morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'The queens of England 3' and 'Strickland'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers; brown silk ribbon marker. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf'.
Makers and roles
Agnes Strickland (1796-1874), author Elizabeth Strickland (1794-1875), author