Lady E. Stuart Wortley - The Keepsake for 1840 - 1840
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The Keepsake for 1840, edited by Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, is a one-volume English-language edition of 264 pages with a half-leather binding, published in London in 1840 by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
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A very RARE and interesting book...."The Keepsake for 1840"...it was a popular English literary annual and gift book edited by Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley and published in London by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. It featured high-quality steel-plate engravings paired with aristocratic and romantic poetry, prose, travel sketches, and notable contributions like letters of Lady Rachael Russell and descriptions of Russian palaces by the Marchioness of Londonderry.
Externally original cloth with wear around edges and corners, wear head and tail of spine, shelfwear. Inside lacking ffe. tanned endpapers with wear. Pages and text overall clean and complete. Lacking plates at pages 64-88-126-144-148-242.
Uncommon. Scarce
A very RARE and interesting book...."The Keepsake for 1840"...it was a popular English literary annual and gift book edited by Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley and published in London by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. It featured high-quality steel-plate engravings paired with aristocratic and romantic poetry, prose, travel sketches, and notable contributions like letters of Lady Rachael Russell and descriptions of Russian palaces by the Marchioness of Londonderry.
Externally original cloth with wear around edges and corners, wear head and tail of spine, shelfwear. Inside lacking ffe. tanned endpapers with wear. Pages and text overall clean and complete. Lacking plates at pages 64-88-126-144-148-242.
Uncommon. Scarce
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Illustrated, Literature
Book title
The Keepsake for 1840
Author/ Illustrator
Lady E. Stuart Wortley
Condition
Mixed / Multiple
Publication year oldest item
1840
Height
24.5 cm
Edition
1st Edition
Width
17 cm
Language
English
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London
Binding/ Material
Half leather
Number of pages
264
