Verlag: London : The Firm, ©, 1991
Anbieter: Librairie Lalibela, Ckelles, PARIS, Frankreich
Erstausgabe
Couverture souple. Zustand: Très bon. Edition originale. ln-4° broché, 26 pages.
Verlag: Melland, 1969
Anbieter: EYES WIDE OPEN, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. Card 20pp illus inc tipped in full page plates.Covers sl rubbed, internally Fine.
Verlag: Eugene, Oregon: Toad Press, 1966
Anbieter: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, USA
Erstausgabe
Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 72pp, printed wrappers. Sound copy of this scarce, well-connected little magazine from 1966 Oregon. Unmarked copy, solid with staple stains to covers. Not Signed.
Verlag: Norwich. 14 September, 1813
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
1p, 4to. In fair condition, aged and worn; laid down on part of a leaf removed from an album. Bathurst's name written in two nineteenth-century hands at the head. The letter was evidently written on receipt of an engraving of Captain George Nicholas Hardinge (1776-1813) of HMS St Fiorenzo, adopted son of George and Lucy Hardinge, who was killed in a naval action off the coast of Ceylon. The letter begins: 'Dear Sir, | To a mind like yours, it must be a very genuine, though a melancholy pleasure, to reflect that among the number of young men, whom the destructive war has hurried to an untimely Grave, there is not one, to whom the following beautiful Lines of Collins are more applicable, than to Captain Hardinge. - | How sleep the Brave, who sink to rest | By all their Countrys wishes blest. - &c'. Bathurst will 'feel a particular pride and satisfaction, in placing the Engraving to the memory of your excellent relative, next to the Portrait of our Norfolk Heroe, the immortal Nelson. - may the sight of two such characters inspire my children, with an ardent wish, to emulate, as they can, transcendant [sic] merit!' Bathurst's youngest son 'is lately gone to Sea'. A postscript reads: 'If I should have neglected to pay my Subscription for the Engraving, will you be so good as to desire some one to call upon Mr: Payne the Bookseller [i.e. Thomas Payne the younger (1752-1831), for whom see the Oxford DNB]'.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1776
Anbieter: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, USA
Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. London: Charles Bathurst, 1776 (illustrator). London: Charles Bathurst, 1776. The Colorful Duchess of Kingston [Trial]. Kingston, Elizabeth Chudleigh Hervey, Duchess of [1720-1788], Defendant. The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy, Before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, In Westminster-Hall, In Full-Parliament, On Monday the 15th, Tuesday the 16th, Friday the 19th, Saturday the 20th, and Monday the 22d of April, 1776; On the Last of Which Days the Said Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston was Found Guilty. Published by Order of the House of Peers. London: Printed for Charles Bathurst, 1776. [iv], 176 pp. Title page preceded by imprimatur leaf. Folio (13-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, rebacked retaining spine, endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing, light gatoring to spine, small chip to head of spine, corners bumped and somewhat worn, small later bookseller ticket to front pastedown, front hinge cracked, another crack in text block between p. 176, which is lightly soiled, and following leaf. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing in a few places, owner name (Horace Witner "1906 or 7") to front endleaf, 19th or 20th-century annotations in pencil to endleaves, some leaves have marks to margins in same hand, lower corner lacking from leaves I4 (pp. 35-36) and Ss2 (pp.159-160) with no loss to text. $650. * Only edition. When she determined to marry the Duke of Kingston, Elizabeth feared the scandal of divorce from her first husband, Augustus Hervey, later Earl of Bristol, who wanted a divorce, so she instituted a suit of jactitation against him. His negative response ignored, she took an oath that she was unmarried, and the court so declared her. She married the Duke of Kingston in 1769, and he died in 1770 and left her a substantial estate on the condition that she remain a widow. The duke's nephew, Mr. Evelyn Meadow, brought suit against her for bigamy shortly after the duke's death, while she was traveling in Italy. She returned to England to stand trial. Found guilty, she would have been "burned on the hand" but she claimed the privilege of her peerage which served to exempt her from corporal punishment. She continued a life of travel and adventure until her sudden death in Paris in 1788. Dictionary of National Biography IX:730. Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 1957. English Short-Title.