first edition Original blue cloth with overall lace pattern, spines stamped in gilt.
1893 · London:
by Hill, Georgiana
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1893 First edition. Original blue cloth with overall lace pattern, spines stamped in gilt. . Two volumes, octavo. . Thirteen fine engraved costume plates, picturing Queen Elizabeth, Mary Stuart, Mary Tudor, the Duke of Buckingham, Queen Victoria, Simon Fraser, John Law, etc. Small ripple on front cover of Volume II. Endpapers, edges lightly foxed, occasionally extending to margins of plates. A remarkably fine, bright copy. Rare in this condition. Very little is known about Georgiana Hill. We could not ascertain her birth and death dates. Besides the present work, she published Women in English Life From Medieval to Modern Times, published by Bentley in 1896, along with several cook books.
(Inventory #: 7773)