(Ladies Fashion, Society etc), an assorted collection of boo...

Hammer

£40

(Ladies Fashion, Society etc), an assorted collection of books, letters etc, including an 18th/early 19th Century composite volume containing ladies fashion engravings, a/f defective part works of titles including 'The Ladies Own Memorandum Book, or Daily Pocket Journal for the Year 1801', London, Robinson, a/f lacking large number of leaves, 'The Ladies New and Polite Pocket Memorandum Book, For the Year of Our Lord 1768', a/f, lacking large number of leaves, various other similar works bound in one volume, approx. 12 engraved fashion plates throughout, 12mo, old half, rebacked in cloth; together with The Countess of Blessington (edited): 'Heath's Book of Beauty 1838', L, Longmans, 1838, engraved frontis, added engraved vignette title + 11 engraved plates as called for, rebound decorative blue and gold velvet; plus 'The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England', 1720, vol II part II, copy of Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave (1760-1816), noblewoman, courtier and society beauty, inscription verso of front endpaper "Eliz. Waldegrove Given me by the Princess Augusta at Windsor Octr. 1788", (Princess August of Great Britain, 1737-1813), engraved port. frontis, contemp. calf rebacked (retaining backstrip); plus Margot Asquith: 'The Autobiography of Margot Asquith', Thornton Butterworth, 1921 reprint, signed and inscribed by author to half title to Annie Schletter (1858-1944), actress, "To my beloved old friend Annie Schletter from Margot Asquith Summer 1922", plus Sir Cowasjee Jehangir, 1st Bt (1853-1934), adopted son of Sir Cowasjee Jehanghir, autograph letter signed dated Feb 1890, 3 Cornwall Mansions South Kensington headed paper, loosely inserted, orig. cloth (worn/soiled); plus William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964), TLS, 30th March 1921, content re gifting book 'Canada in Flanders' to recipient, with Lord Beaverbrook's compliment slip and the accompanying book (5)