15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 17
 

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Catherine of Wickham [Catherine Gladstone Stewart] Two unpublished manuscript fairy tales. The...

Catherine of Wickham [Catherine Gladstone Stewart]
Two unpublished manuscript fairy tales. The Fairy Tale of the Ugly King, 1863, pp. 225 and Princess Liliola, 1865, pp. 403. 8vo, similarly bound in panelled calf, blind roll-tooled board edges, red edges, marbled endpapers.
From the nineteenth-century school of such tales, replete with fey knights, glittering Courts and a very clean faux-medieval chivalry. The Ugly King bears a dedication to 'My dear sister'. A brief pencil note at the front of the volumes records that the author died of cholera in Italy in 1869. The names of characters certainly bear a Continental style ('Fidelio' and 'King Benvenuto I') though this may simply be the Victorian style of setting strange tales in semi-fictionalised European settings.

Sold for £750
Estimated at £80 - £120


 

. Bindings scuffed and bumped but tight, internally generally clean.

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 15th Mar, 2019

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