The complete Hanoverian series of female biographies- THE LOVE OF AN UNCROWNED QUEEN Sophie Dorothea, Consort of George I (2 volumes 1900)- CAROLINE THE ILLUSTRIOUS Queen- Consort of George II and sometime Queen-Regent (2 volumes 1901)- A QUEEN OF TEARS Caroline Matilda (Queen of Denmark and sister of George III of Great Britain- 2 volumes 1904)- MRS FITZHERBERT AND GEORGE IV (2 volumes 1905).

WILKINS, WILLIAM HENRY (1860-1905).

Verlag: London. Hutchinson and Co. Longmans Green.

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8 volumes containing 4 titles, octavo 8 3/4 x 6 inches- VERY HANDSOMELY LEATHER BOUND in a uniform half morocco over marbled boards. Quadruple gilt fillets on the bands and gilt swirls in compartments. Top edges gilt. Bindings by Zaehnsdorf with their insignia on the blank endpapers. All volumes illustrated and complete. Fine copies in fine bindings. At Lund University in Sweden Wilkins discovered in 1897 the unpublished correspondence between Sophia Dorothea of Celle, the consort of George I, and her lover, Count Philip Christopher Königsmarck. This research, backed up from the archives of Hanover and elsewhere, led to The Love of an Uncrowned Queen and the other books followed its success. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6293

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Titel: The complete Hanoverian series of female ...

Verlag: London. Hutchinson and Co. Longmans Green.

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good