Strickland, Agnes

The Seven Ages of Woman, and other Poems

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[by J.R. and C. Childs in Bungay for] Hurst, Chance, & Co London 1827 First Edition 8vo. [179 x 110x 16 mm]. viii, 152 pp. Bound in the original drab paper boards, the spine with a printed label, uncut edges. (Joints cracked, ink mark on front covers, a little worn and lacking front free endleaf.) Contained within a full green goatskin slipcase resembling a book made by Riviere & Son for S. M. Samuel in 1897 (signed and dated with a gilt stamp inside the flap), the covers tooled in gilt with a double fillet border, a large flower tool and three bees in each corner and a central cartouche lettered "The Honey For Thee The Flower For Me" surrounded by six bees. The spine divided into six panels with gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third and at the foot, the others tooled with a bee and leaves on a dotted background, the flap tucking in to conceal the fore-edge. (Spine faded towards brown, the flap fragile at the hinge and the pull also weak). A few spots and occasional light soiling but a very good copy in original boards, with a distinguished provenance, as follows: 1. Inscribed in ink on the half-title: "To my dear Jane Dell as a slight memorial of the regard of her affectionate friend the author. June 19th 1833". 2. The case was specially made by Rivere for Stuart Montagu Samuel (1856-1926), the nephew of the banker Samuel Montagu (1832-1911), 1st Baron Swaythling. He was a partner in the firm of Samuel Montagu & Co), and was a liberal M.P. from 1900-1916. He had a number of such cases made by Riviere, to protect the original boards. 3. Pencil inscription: "To Mary Hyde on her birthday with love July 8, 1962, John Fleming". Fleming was, of course, a great bookdealer, Hyde a great collector. He added a note about the case and Montagu and claimed that "his widow is still living in Kensington (in 1962) where John Fleming visits her". She must have been a very old lady.

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• bookseller: George Bayntun (GREAT BRITAIN)