Maids of Honour, Twelve Descriptive Sketches of Single Women Who Have Distinguished Themselves
by A.J. Green-Armytage
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Good
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. xii, 377, top edge gilt, fold-out pedigree of Agnes Strickland, frontispiece and 11 further portraits. Publisher's blue cloth gilt, black chalked eps, An ex-library book (Cheltenham Reference Library) a gift from the library of Rev. Charles McArthur presented by Mrs McArthur in 1928. Presentation copy signed with initials (A.J. G-A.) on the first blank by the author to Katherine McArthur. Library stamps to plates and elsewhere. Essays on Hannah More, Mary Carpenter, Caroline Lucretia Herschel, Sister Dora, Mary Kingsley, Adelaide Anne Procter, Marianne North, Jean Ingelow, Louisa Alcott, Christina Rossetti, Agnes Strickland and Mary Lamb. Last few pages foxed, some mild rubbing to spine edges, else very good.. Author Presentation Copy. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
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- Interquarian
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 004408
- Title
- Maids of Honour, Twelve Descriptive Sketches of Single Women Who Have Distinguished Themselves
- Author
- A.J. Green-Armytage
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- Women, Feminism,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autograph, Author and Ownership Signatures;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
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