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
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3254317
Summary
Bibliographic description
New edition, with corrections and additions. 12 v., plates : ill., ports. ; 12mo. Imperfect: v. 1-2 only. Shelved as a set with v. 3 of 2nd ed. (1841) and v. 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). Bookseller's pencil codes and notes about the set on front free endpaper verso: "hscss/om", "5909", "Fine copy." and "Queens of England 12 vols / Queens of Scotland 8 vols / Princesses of England 6 vols / Letters Mary Queen of Scots 3 vols / Queen Victoria 2 vols / 31 vols / With autograph of Agnes Strickland/ in Vol. 1 of Queen Victoria.". 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 1[-2]' 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