Lot Essay
The copy of Restoration Love Songs was presented to Violet from Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington. They had been engaged for a short time before the First World War.
Details
HADFIELD, John (editor). Restoration Love Songs, [Hitchin:] The Cupid Press, 1950. 8°, folding frontispiece and illustrations by Rex Whistler, original cloth-backed decorated boards, t.e.g., the front free endpaper inscribed, "For Violet from her oldest friend Gerry, Dec. 1952."
BECKFORD, William. Vathek ... A New translation by Herbert B. Grimsditch, [London:] The Nonesuch Press, 1929. 4°, 10 coloured plates by Marion V. Dorn, original vellum-backed decorated boards, (extremities lightly rubbed), t.e.g. NO. 1,487 OF 1,550 COPIES.
With 6 other books. (8)
BECKFORD, William. Vathek ... A New translation by Herbert B. Grimsditch, [London:] The Nonesuch Press, 1929. 4°, 10 coloured plates by Marion V. Dorn, original vellum-backed decorated boards, (extremities lightly rubbed), t.e.g. NO. 1,487 OF 1,550 COPIES.
With 6 other books. (8)
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