Shelfmark
CS.1365.01
Author
Title
The gentle Hertford : her life and letters / by Helen Sard Hughes, Wellesley College.
Publication, distribution, etc.
New York : The Macmillan Company, 1940.
Physical description
xiii, 506 p., [17] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note
"A Wellesley College Publication"--T.p.
Note
Profusely illustrated, including frontispiece, portraits, genealogical tables, and facsimiles.
Note
With a half-title.
Provenance
Ms. inscription in pencil by previous owner on the half-title: "Wilfrid Blunt. Nov. 2. 1950 from the author".
Provenance
Includes a manuscript letter, dated Nov 2 1950, from Helen Sard Hughes to Wilfrid Blunt, glued along the left margin on the half-title verso.
Provenance
Ms. note from Helen Sard Hughes glued on the left margin of the half-title: "Please accept this a squab of our common interest in Lady Hertford once in residence in Warabrough Castle. Helen Sard Hughes".
Binding
20th century blue cloth binding; gilt centrepiece on front board; gilt lettering on spine; illustrated endpapers reproducing photograph of an engraving by Samuel and Nathaniel Buk of the Alnwick Castle.
Copy-specific note
Contains extensive handwritten annotations in the margins and text, some with underlining.
Subject
Somerset, Frances Seymour, 1699 - 1754 Biography.
Subject
Somerset, Frances Seymour, 1699 - 1754 Correspondence.
Subject
Nobility Great Britain Biography.
Subject
Women poets, English 18th century Biography.
Subject
English poetry 18th century History and criticism.
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Genre/Form
Correspondence.
Added entry--name
Blunt, Wilfrid, 1901 - 1987 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Macmillan Company publisher.
Added entry--name
Wellesley College publisher.
Added entry--place
United States New York New York.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B53456