signed first edition
1905 · New York
by WARD, Mrs. Humphry [Mary Augusta]; Albert Sterner, illus
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1905. Autograph Edition. Limited to 972 copies of which this is no. 655. Two volumes; octavo (20.5cm.); original blue gilt-lettered cloth, top edges gilt; [10],291,[1];[6],[293]-562pp.; frontispieces, 14 plates. General light shelf wear, else Very Good or better. Signed by the author on Vol. I colophon page. British author's best-selling novel, loosely based on the life of statesman William Lamb Melbourne and his wife Lady Carolina Lamb. (Inventory #: 28849)