Product Description
First Edition.
Hardback.
8vo.
pp viii, 197.
Pages uncut.
Handwritten letter tipped in at front: 'My dear Lady William, I have collected a few trifles written by my brother into a volume which I wish to offer to his friends and as a memorial of him- however slight.
I beg your acceptance of a copy which I .
will read with interest- it will give me great pleasure to hear your observations.
I have prepared a few explanatory remarks.
which contain all the information in my powers.
I felt a sort of melancholy pleasure in putting together this little volume which I have had printed in a very limited number of copies.
Believe me, dear Lady William, very faithfully yours, Edward Cheney.
' Presentation copy on printed presentation page to Lady William Russell signed in pencil by Edward Cheney.
Verse inc a translation from Manzoni also the long story (134 pages) Rossano.
Written by R.
H.
Cheney in 1830 and set among the English community in Naples it has fantasy elements - Rossano is a 'jettatore'--ie possessed of the Evil Eye.
Lady William Russell = Adeline Marie Russell, Duchess of Bedford, GBE (ne Somers-Cocks; 1852 Ð 12 1920) British advocate for penal reform.
She led the European War Fund that cared for the wounded of the First World War.
Original publisher's blind patterned light brown cloth lettered gilt at the spine.
Excellent condition.
Woburn Abbey bookplate of the Duke of Bedford.
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