MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF CHARLES THE SECOND (from Hugh Walpole's Brackenburn, Keswick Library)
Book Description
This well-known title concerning Count Grammont's Memoirs assumes a far greater interest in that it derived from Hugh Walpole's personal library at Brackenburn in Keswick and carries his bookplate on the inside cover. The book also includes 'The Personal History of Charles incl. the King's own account of his escape & preservation after the battle of Worcester, as dictated to Pepys' and
'The Boscobel Tracts or contemporary narratives of His Majsty's adventures, from the murder of his father to the Restoration'.
Author
Count Grammont / edited by Sir Walter Scott
Date
1853
Binding
Brown cloth over boards with embossed design to covers & spine. Gilt titles to spine. HUGH WALPOLE'S BOOKPLATE with gilt ensignia on brown cloth attached to inside front cover.in brown
Publisher
Henry G Bohn
Illustrator
Steel-engraved frontispiece of Nell Gwynne. (According to Title Page there are 'additional illustrations' but no evidence that these were ever inserted in this volume.
Condition
G (Age toning to title page ; hinges tender along spine)
Pages
553
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