Biographical Notices of the Portraits at Hingingbrook. All Faithfulls in 2 large slipcases.
[Faithfull, Emily]. Boyle, Mary L. Biographical Notices of the Portraits at Hinchingbrook. London: Printed at the Victoria Press…(Office for the Employment of Women), 1876.
8vo.; light foxing to front and rear pages, else fine; contemporary bookplate on front pastedown; green cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt; a handsome copy.
First edition of this strange quasi-art-historical treatise which takes the reader behind the scenes at Hinchingbrook and provides short biographical essays about the subjects of the portraits hanging there. Nearly half of the subjects are women, nearly all of them royal; included, for example, are brief sketches on Mariana, Queen Regent of Spain, Mary, Countess of Sandwich, The Honourable Elizabeth Montagu, and others.
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