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    By Hugh Stokes
    New York   McBride, Nast & Company
    8.5" by 6" xiv [2], 346 [1] pp.
    A vanishingly scarce first edition offering a richly illustrated glimpse into the Whig-aligned Devonshire House circle, richly illustrated with monochrome portrait plates.
    By Hugh Stokes

    1916 The Devonshire House Circle

    New York   McBride, Nast & Company
    8.5" by 6" xiv [2], 346 [1] pp.
    A vanishingly scarce first edition offering a richly illustrated glimpse into the Whig-aligned Devonshire House circle, richly illustrated with monochrome portrait plates.
    £45.00
    : 0.75kgs / : 974H27
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

    In the publisher's original cloth binding.

    This volume is a first edition. 

    This volume explores the vibrant social and political world surrounding Devonshire House in Piccadilly, centering the elite Whig-aligned social group involving Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806) and her mother-in-law Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire (1758–1824).

    This volume features 17 illustrated monochrome plate portraits. Collated, complete.

    Condition

    In the publisher’s original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight fading and rubbing to rear board. The odd slight spot to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot. Scattered spotting to first and last few leaves.

    Very Good Indeed

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