£60
Wales. Madame de Sévigné and Her Contemporaries, two-volume set, first edition thus, London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1841, uniformly bound in contemporary red quarter-calf over marbled boards gilt, unusual sewn-in silk bookmarks, 8vo, (2)
Provenance: Diana, Lady Hamlyn-Williams (née Whitaker; 1766-1849), married Sir James Hamlyn-Williams, 2nd Baronet (1765-1829), of Edwinsford, Carmarthenshire, and Clovelly Court, Devon, sometime MP and High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire; each pastedown with her monogrammed book label and with her ink manuscript ownership inscription: Lady Hamlyn-Williams/Norwood [Surrey] Jan:y 1842, the ffep of volume I with a pen-and-ink and pencil sketch of a cottage orné, almost certainly by her hand.
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