The private letters of Princess Lieven to Prince Metternich 1820-1826 / edited and with a biographical foreword by Peter Quennell; assisted in translation by Dilys Powell.
Dorothea Benckendorff, Princess Lieven (1785-1857)
Category
Books
Date
1937
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3255886
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxii, 386 p., plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. Black ink-stamp on rear free endpaper verso: '12.37'. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's yellow cloth; gilt stamped coronet, quill pen, scroll and envelope on upper board; gilt lettered spine; blue-grey top edge.
Makers and roles
Dorothea Benckendorff, Princess Lieven (1785-1857), author Peter Quennell (1905-1993), editor Powell, Dilys, translator