1891 A Group of Noble Dames

Description

Fine Binding, First Edition, Leather Binding, Signed Binding

The first edition.

Smartly bound by Birdsall, with the original later state plain brown cloth bound in to the rear.

An interesting collection of ten short stories contained in a frame narrative by Thomas Hardy. 'A Group of Noble Dames' follows the course of one evening, when a group of members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame of the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries.

Including 'The First Countess of Wessex', 'Barbara of the House of Grebe', 'The Marchioness of Stonehenge', 'Lady Mottisfont', 'The Lady Icenway', 'Squire Petrick's Lady', 'Anna, Lady Baxby', 'The Lady Penelope', 'The Duchess of Hamptonshire', and 'The Honourable Laura'.