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398 pp all original, HB half brown leather, Spine gilt, gilt bright. Top edge gilt. Foredge and bottom edge uncut. This copy with various inscriptions, as follows: 1. In black ink on fep: "Louisa, Lady Ashburton, with the Grateful and Kind Rememberances of the Author. 16 Dec. 1887". Then: 2; "Kent House, Knightsbridge. S.W.". Then "A.W.Everett. Polsloe Priory. Exeter". the text contains 60 poems and various mezzotint plates. There are two full plate colour image of "Pole Impaling Shapcote. From a Window in Shute Church". Page363 and facing pages 107 and 351. [The author's dedication is interesting. Lord Ashburton married his first wife, Lady Harriet Mary Montagu, eldest daughter of George Montagu, 6th Earl of Sandwich, on 12 April 1823. Their only child, Alexander Montagu Baring , 1828 - 1830, died as an infant. Lady Harriet is well known for inspiring the devotion of Thomas Carlyle, to the great dismay of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle. Lady Harriet died on 4 May 1857, aged 51. Lord Ashburton married his second wife Louisa Caroline Stewart-Mackenzie, our dedicatee, youngest daughter of James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie, on 17 November 1858. They had one daughter, the Hon. Mary Florence, born on 26 June 1860 at Bath House, Piccadilly, London, a site now occupied by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority; she married William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton. Lord Ashburton died at The Grange, Hertfordshire, in March 1864, aged 64. He was succeeded in the Barony by his younger brother, Francis. Lady Ashburton subsequently had an intimate relationship with the sculptor Harriet Hosmer. She died in London in February 1903, aged 75. She would have been 59 at the time of this dedication. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004163
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