Emma Willsher. Memoirs of the Queens of Prussia.

by ATKINSON

£100 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

ATKINSON, Emma Willsher. Memoirs of the Queens of Prussia. London, W. K. Kent and Co, 1858. 8vo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, ornamented in blind; pp. vi, [2], 425, cloth only a little marked, offsetting from endpapers, otherwise an attractive copy of an uncommon work, even more so with the intact original publisher's binding. First edition. A monograph of the Hohenzollern Royals from a female perspective. Emma Willsher Atkinson (1826-1900), daughter of a curate, published two books, the present one and a novel, Extremes the following year. SKU: 2114016

• Binding: Hardcover

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