Description: ANOTHER RARE ITEM FROM MYANTIQUECOLLECTION2020. Beryl Poignand (1887-1965) GOVERNESS TO QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER AND THE COUNTESS OF STRATHMORE.This book came into my possession a few years ago from an auction house selling Royal memorabilia. The auction description related this book and other items that I bought from the estate of Beryl Poignand to add to my collection. Beryl was employed by the Countess of Strathmore to care for her children which included the Queen / Queen Mother ‘to be’ Princess Elizabeth. The book is dated for 1845 and the printer is R Adell of Edinburgh. The auction description was that this book was given as a gift in later life from the Queen Mother to Beryl as a gift. This ‘AUTHORS EDITION’ book is in aged condition with foxing throughout. The covers are tooled burgundy leather with gold lettering on the spine. There are no loose pages. The spine is missing a small part bottom right corner and is torn. The second page has an engraving by JMW Turner of ‘Ashestiel’ Scott’s home when he achieved some fame for his writing. measurements are 13.8cms in length x 9cms in width. It was here that Scott wrote the works that would bring him poetic fame, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake. Ashestiel itself is immortalized in the epistles to friends which preface each of the six cantos of Marmion, where Scott describes the effects of the changing seasons upon its scenery.Marmion is a poem on one of the greatest disasters in Scottish history, the battle of Flodden Field (1513), where an English army inflicted heavy losses on the Scots, killing King James IV and most of his nobles. The poem also concerns the designs of Lord Marmion, a favourite of Henry VIII, upon a wealthy heiress, Clara de Clare.So we have here a lovely antique book with English Royal connections.Thanks for looking. MYANTIQUECOLLECTION2020
Price: 225 GBP
Location: Hull
End Time: 2025-01-31T13:27:42.000Z
Shipping Cost: 31.01 GBP
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Binding: Leather
Non-Fiction Subject: Literature, Poetry & Criticism
Language: English
Special Attributes: AUTHORS EDITION
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher: Antiquity
Original/Facsimile: Original
